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Recent advances in geometric deep learning and generative modeling have enabled the design of novel proteins with a wide range of desired properties. However, current state-of-the-art approaches are typically restricted to generating…

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The ability to computationally generate novel yet physically foldable protein structures could lead to new biological discoveries and new treatments targeting yet incurable diseases. Despite recent advances in protein structure prediction,…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-28 Kevin E. Wu , Kevin K. Yang , Rianne van den Berg , James Y. Zou , Alex X. Lu , Ava P. Amini

Designing novel protein sequences for a desired 3D topological fold is a fundamental yet non-trivial task in protein engineering. Challenges exist due to the complex sequence--fold relationship, as well as the difficulties to capture the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-25 Yue Cao , Payel Das , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Pin-Yu Chen , Igor Melnyk , Yang Shen

Computational protein design facilitates discovery of novel proteins with prescribed structure and functionality. Exciting designs were recently reported using novel data-driven methodologies that can be roughly divided into two categories:…

Biological Physics · Physics 2023-03-28 Cyril Malbranke , David Bikard , Simona Cocco , Rémi Monasson , Jérôme Tubiana

Protein family design emerges as a promising alternative by combining the advantages of de novo protein design and mutation-based directed evolution.In this paper, we propose ProfileBFN, the Profile Bayesian Flow Networks, for specifically…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-25 Jingjing Gong , Yu Pei , Siyu Long , Yuxuan Song , Zhe Zhang , Wenhao Huang , Ziyao Cao , Shuyi Zhang , Hao Zhou , Wei-Ying Ma

Motivation Protein fold recognition is an important problem in structural bioinformatics. Almost all traditional fold recognition methods use sequence (homology) comparison to indirectly predict the fold of a tar get protein based on the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-06-06 Jie Hou , Badri Adhikari , Jianlin Cheng

Inverse Protein Folding (IPF) is a critical subtask in the field of protein design, aiming to engineer amino acid sequences capable of folding correctly into a specified three-dimensional (3D) conformation. Although substantial progress has…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-20 Yanting Li , Jiyue Jiang , Zikang Wang , Ziqian Lin , Dongchen He , Yuheng Shan , Yanruisheng Shao , Jiayi Li , Xiangyu Shi , Jiuming Wang , Yanyu Chen , Yimin Fan , Han Li , Yu Li

Both performance and efficiency are important to semantic segmentation. State-of-the-art semantic segmentation algorithms are mostly based on dilated Fully Convolutional Networks (dilatedFCN), which adopt dilated convolutions in the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Jianbo Liu , Junjun He , Jiawei Zhang , Jimmy S. Ren , Hongsheng Li

De novo molecular design has facilitated the exploration of large chemical space to accelerate drug discovery. Structure-based de novo method can overcome the data scarcity of active ligands by incorporating drug-target interaction into…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-16 Yaqin Li , Lingli Li , Yongjin Xu , Yi Yu

We review the recent progress in computational approaches to protein design which builds on advances in statistical-mechanical protein folding theory. In particular, we evaluate the degeneracy of the protein code (i.e. how many sequences…

Condensed Matter · Physics 2007-05-23 E. I. Shakhnovich

RNA co-transcriptionality, where RNA is spliced or folded during transcription from DNA templates, offers promising potential for molecular programming. It enables programmable folding of nano-scale RNA structures and has recently been…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2025-07-01 Da-Jung Cho , Szilárd Zsolt Fazekas , Shinnosuke Seki , Max Wiedenhöft

Is there a foreign language describing protein sequences and structures simultaneously? Protein structures, represented by continuous 3D points, have long posed a challenge due to the contrasting modeling paradigms of discrete sequences. We…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-20 Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Jue Wang , Yufei Huang , Lirong Wu , Stan Z. Li

Protein structure prediction and folding are fundamental to understanding biology, with recent deep learning advances reshaping the field. Diffusion-based generative models have revolutionized protein design, enabling the creation of novel…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Yogesh Verma , Markus Heinonen , Vikas Garg

Deep learning in \emph{de novo} protein design has achieved atomic-level fidelity. However, existing models remain largely non-deliberative: they directly synthesize molecular geometries without explicitly reasoning about which residues or…

Designing molecules with desirable physiochemical properties and functionalities is a long-standing challenge in chemistry, material science, and drug discovery. Recently, machine learning-based generative models have emerged as promising…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-26 Zaixi Zhang , Qi Liu , Chee-Kong Lee , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Enhong Chen

Proteins, essential to biological systems, perform functions intricately linked to their three-dimensional structures. Understanding the relationship between protein structures and their amino acid sequences remains a core challenge in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-04 Liang He , Peiran Jin , Yaosen Min , Shufang Xie , Lijun Wu , Tao Qin , Xiaozhuan Liang , Kaiyuan Gao , Yuliang Jiang , Tie-Yan Liu

The design of protein sequences with desired functionalities is a fundamental task in protein engineering. Deep generative methods, such as autoregressive models and diffusion models, have greatly accelerated the discovery of novel protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Zitai Kong , Yiheng Zhu , Yinlong Xu , Hanjing Zhou , Mingzhe Yin , Jialu Wu , Hongxia Xu , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Tingjun Hou , Jian Wu

Deep learning has transformed protein design, enabling accurate structure prediction, sequence optimization, and de novo protein generation. Advances in single-chain protein structure prediction via AlphaFold2, RoseTTAFold, ESMFold, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Gregory W. Kyro , Tianyin Qiu , Victor S. Batista

Designing protein sequences with specific biological functions and structural stability is crucial in biology and chemistry. Generative models already demonstrated their capabilities for reliable protein design. However, previous models are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-02-28 Lin Zongying , Li Hao , Lv Liuzhenghao , Lin Bin , Zhang Junwu , Chen Calvin Yu-Chian , Yuan Li , Tian Yonghong

The computational design of novel protein structures has the potential to impact numerous scientific disciplines greatly. Toward this goal, we introduce FoldFlow, a series of novel generative models of increasing modeling power based on the…