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The biological functions of proteins often depend on dynamic structural ensembles. In this work, we develop a flow-based generative modeling approach for learning and sampling the conformational landscapes of proteins. We repurpose highly…

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Accurately predicting vapor pressure is vital for various industrial and environmental applications. However, obtaining accurate measurements for all compounds of interest is not possible due to the resource and labor intensity of…

Generative modeling has become a central paradigm in protein research, extending machine learning beyond structure prediction toward sequence design, backbone generation, inverse folding, and biomolecular interaction modeling. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-30 Senura Hansaja Wanasekara , Minh-Duong Nguyen , Xiaochen Liu , Nguyen H. Tran , Ken-Tye Yong

Revealing the structure of complex biological macromolecules, such as proteins, is an essential step for understanding the chemical mechanisms that determine the diversity of their functions. Synchrotron based x-ray crystallography and…

Accurate localization of proteins from fluorescence microscopy images is challenging due to the inter-class similarities and intra-class disparities introducing grave concerns in addressing multi-class classification problems. Conventional…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-10-11 Muhammad Tahir , Saeed Anwar , Ajmal Mian , Abdul Wahab Muzaffar

MultiPUFFIN is a domain-informed multimodal foundation model for predicting thermophysical properties of small molecules, addressing a critical gap in chemical engineering, drug discovery, and materials science. Existing molecular…

Understanding the relationships between protein sequence, structure and function is a long-standing biological challenge with manifold implications from drug design to our understanding of evolution. Recently, protein language models have…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-29 Dexiong Chen , Philip Hartout , Paolo Pellizzoni , Carlos Oliver , Karsten Borgwardt

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) govern nearly all cellular processes, yet computational methods for identifying binding partners typically produce ranked predictions without mechanistic justification. This creates a fundamental barrier…

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The promise of discovering a functional blueprint of a cellular system from large-scale and high-throughput sequence and experimental data is predicated on the belief that the same top-down investigative approach that proved successful in…

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Protein representation learning is a challenging task that aims to capture the structure and function of proteins from their amino acid sequences. Previous methods largely ignored the fact that not all amino acids are equally important for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ruijie Quan , Wenguan Wang , Fan Ma , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

While many good textbooks are available on Protein Structure, Molecular Simulations, Thermodynamics and Bioinformatics methods in general, there is no good introductory level book for the field of Structural Bioinformatics. This book aims…

Protein structures are important for understanding their functions and interactions. Currently, many protein structure prediction methods are enriching the structure database. Discriminating the origin of structures is crucial for…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-24 Wenrui Gou , Wenhui Ge , Yang Tan , Mingchen Li , Guisheng Fan , Huiqun Yu

Proteins are the main workhorses of biological functions in a cell, a tissue, or an organism. Identification and quantification of proteins in a given sample, e.g. a cell type under normal/disease conditions, are fundamental tasks for the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2017-10-10 Ngoc Hieu Tran , Zachariah Levine , Lei Xin , Baozhen Shan , Ming Li

Accurate protein structural ensembles can be determined with metainference, a Bayesian inference method that integrates experimental information with prior knowledge of the system and deals with all sources of uncertainty and errors as well…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-24 Thomas Löhr , Carlo Camilloni , Massimiliano Bonomi , Michele Vendruscolo

Revealing the functional sites of biological sequences, such as evolutionary conserved, structurally interacting or co-evolving protein sites, is a fundamental, and yet challenging task. Different frameworks and models were developed to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-07 Justas Dauparas , Haobo Wang , Avi Swartz , Peter Koo , Mor Nitzan , Sergey Ovchinnikov

The identification of essential proteins in protein-protein interaction networks (PINs) can help to discover drug targets and prevent disease. In order to improve the accuracy of the identification of essential proteins, researchers…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-08 Haoyue Wang , Li Pan , Bo Yang , Junqiang Jiang , Wenbin Li

Natural protein sequences somehow encode the structural forms that these molecules adopt. Recent developments in structure-prediction are agnostic to the mechanisms by which proteins fold and represent them as static objects. However, the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-26 Ezequiel A. Galpern , Federico Caamaño , Diego U. Ferreiro

In recent years, there has been a surge in the development of 3D structure-based pre-trained protein models, representing a significant advancement over pre-trained protein language models in various downstream tasks. However, most existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-06-04 Jiale Zhao , Wanru Zhuang , Jia Song , Yaqi Li , Shuqi Lu

Proteins are the common constituents of all living cells. They are molecular machines that interact with each other as well as with other cell products and carry out a dizzying array of functions with distinction. These interactions follow…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-05-25 Tatjana Škrbić , Trinh Xuan Hoang , Achille Giacometti , Amos Maritan , Jayanth R. Banavar

Motivation: Protein-protein interactions (PPI) are critical to the function of proteins in both normal and diseased cells, and many critical protein functions are mediated by interactions.Knowledge of the nature of these interactions is…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Aparna Elangovan , Melissa Davis , Karin Verspoor