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mRNA technology has revolutionized vaccine development, protein replacement therapies, and cancer immunotherapies, offering rapid production and precise control over sequence and efficacy. However, the inherent instability of mRNA poses…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-26 Max Ward , Mary Richardson , Mihir Metkar

Our work is concerned with the generation and targeted design of RNA, a type of genetic macromolecule that can adopt complex structures which influence their cellular activities and functions. The design of large scale and complex…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-02-02 Zichao Yan , William L. Hamilton , Mathieu Blanchette

In this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep learning model, called E2Efold, for RNA secondary structure prediction which can effectively take into account the inherent constraints in the problem. The key idea of E2Efold is to directly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-06-11 Xinshi Chen , Yu Li , Ramzan Umarov , Xin Gao , Le Song

We introduce RNA-FrameFlow, the first generative model for 3D RNA backbone design. We build upon SE(3) flow matching for protein backbone generation and establish protocols for data preparation and evaluation to address unique challenges…

Designing messenger RNA (mRNA) sequences for a fixed target protein requires searching an exponentially large synonymous space while optimizing properties that affect stability and downstream performance. This is challenging because…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-09 Feipeng Yue , Ning Dai , Wei Yu Tang , Tianshuo Zhou , David H. Mathews , Liang Huang

Accurate RNA structure modeling remains difficult because RNA backbones are highly flexible, non-canonical interactions are prevalent, and experimentally determined 3D structures are comparatively scarce. We introduce \emph{RiboSphere}, a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-23 Zhou Zhang , Hanqun Cao , Cheng Tan , Fang Wu , Pheng Ann Heng , Tianfan Fu

Inverse design of short single-stranded RNA and DNA sequences (aptamers) is the task of finding sequences that satisfy a set of desired criteria. Relevant criteria may be, for example, the presence of specific folding motifs, binding to…

Many computerized methods for RNA-RNA interaction structure prediction have been developed. Recently, $O(N^6)$ time and $O(N^4)$ space dynamic programming algorithms have become available that compute the partition function of RNA-RNA…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2010-07-15 Andrew X. Li , Manja Marz , Jing Qin , Christian M. Reidys

We consider the Combinatorial RNA Design problem, a minimal instance of RNA design where one must produce an RNA sequence that adopts a given secondary structure as its minimal free-energy structure. We consider two free-energy models where…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-08-05 Jozef Haleš , Alice Héliou , Ján Maňuch , Yann Ponty , Ladislav Stacho

It has been shown that minimum free energy structure for RNAs and RNA-RNA interaction is often incorrect due to inaccuracies in the energy parameters and inherent limitations of the energy model. In contrast, ensemble based quantities such…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2013-01-09 Hamidreza Chitsaz , Elmirasadat Forouzmand , Gholamreza Haffari

We propose a new deterministic methodology to predict RNA sequence and protein folding. Is stem enough for structure prediction? The main idea is to consider all possible stem formation in the given sequence. With the stem loop energy and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-01-19 Mengyi Tang , Kumbit Hwang , Sung Ha Kang

Generative molecular design has moved from proof-of-concept to real-world applicability, as marked by the surge in very recent papers reporting experimental validation. Key challenges in explainability and sample efficiency present…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-05 Jeff Guo , Philippe Schwaller

Elastic network models (ENMs) are valuable and efficient tools for characterizing the collective internal dynamics of proteins based on the knowledge of their native structures. The increasing evidence that the biological functionality of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-09-01 Giovanni Pinamonti , Sandro Bottaro , Cristian Micheletti , Giovanni Bussi

Ribonucleic acid (RNA) binds to molecules to achieve specific biological functions. While generative models are advancing biomolecule design, existing methods for designing RNA that target specific ligands face limitations in capturing…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-10-14 Runze Ma , Zhongyue Zhang , Zichen Wang , Chenqing Hua , Jiahua Rao , Zhuomin Zhou , Shuangjia Zheng

Several algorithms for RNA inverse folding have been used to design synthetic riboswitches, ribozymes and thermoswitches, whose activity has been experimentally validated. The RNAiFold software is unique among approaches for inverse folding…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-05-29 Juan Antonio Garcia-Martin , Ivan Dotu , Peter Clote

We consider the problem of efficiently designing sets (codes) of equal-length DNA strings (words) that satisfy certain combinatorial constraints. This problem has numerous motivations including DNA computing and DNA self-assembly. Previous…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ming-Yang Kao , Manan Sanghi , Robert Schweller

Computational RNA design tasks are often posed as inverse problems, where sequences are designed based on adopting a single desired secondary structure without considering 3D conformational diversity. We introduce gRNAde, a geometric RNA…

RNA's diverse biological functions stem from its structural versatility, yet accurately predicting and designing RNA sequences given a 3D conformation (inverse folding) remains a challenge. Here, I introduce a deep learning framework that…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-06 Annabelle Yao

The paper investigates the computational problem of predicting RNA secondary structures. The general belief is that allowing pseudoknots makes the problem hard. Existing polynomial-time algorithms are heuristic algorithms with no…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Samuel Ieong , Ming-Yang Kao , Tak-Wah Lam , Wing-Kin Sung , Siu-Ming Yiu

Generative probabilistic models emerge as a new paradigm in data-driven, evolution-informed design of biomolecular sequences. This paper introduces a novel approach, called Edge Activation Direct Coupling Analysis (eaDCA), tailored to the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-04-29 Francesco Calvanese , Camille N. Lambert , Philippe Nghe , Francesco Zamponi , Martin Weigt