A new diffusion model generates novel protein backbones without relying on pretrained networks.
problem Generating novel protein backbones without relying on pretrained networks.
method Developed a SE(3) invariant diffusion model on multiple frames, called FrameDiff.
result Generated designable protein monomers up to 500 amino acids without pretrained networks.
Researchers use shape analysis to recover protein structures from Cryo-EM data.
problem Recovering the three-dimensional backbone structure of single polypeptide proteins from noisy tomographic projections.
method Shape analysis and matrix Lie group actions to deform point clouds to match 2D tomography data.
result Optimal deformations are computed to recover the three-dimensional backbone structure of proteins.
Generative model designs highly designable proteins using geometric algebra.
problem Creating proteins with diverse and statistically accurate secondary structures.
method Introduced a geometric algebra flow matching model (FrameFlow) with Clifford Frame Attention (CFA) for protein backbone design.
result Achieved high designability, diversity, and novelty in protein backbone sampling.
Few-step protein backbone generators reduce sampling time by over 20x.
problem Computational bottleneck in diffusion-based protein generation models.
method Score distillation adapted for protein backbone generation, combined with inference time noise modulation.
result Significant reduction in sampling time (20+ fold) while maintaining comparable performance.
Proteins are the major building blocks of life, and actuators of almost all chemical and biophysical events in living organisms. Their native structures in turn enable their biological functions which have a fundamental role in drug design. This motivates predicting the structure of a protein from its sequence of amino…
New method learns diverse protein scaffolds for motif design.
problem Designing long, diverse protein scaffolds for specific motifs.
method E(3)-equivariant graph neural network for diffusion modeling.
result First to guarantee conditional sampling from diffusion models.
The backbone of most proteins forms an open curve. To study their entanglement, a common strategy consists in searching for the presence of knots in their backbones using topological invariants. However, this approach requires to close the curve into a loop, which alters the geometry of curve. Knoto-ID allows evaluatin…
Mathematician summarizes protein geometry and mutation effects.
problem Understanding how proteins mutate and their structure-function relationship.
method Mathematical analysis of protein structures and functions, focusing on hydrogen bonds and secondary structure.
result Protein secondary structure regulates mutation by stabilizing or destabilizing regions.
DiAMoNDBack models protein backmapping from coarse-grained Cα traces.
problem Restoring all-atom details from coarse-grained protein representations.
method Autoregressive denoising diffusion model for residue-by-residue backmapping.
result Achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction performance in diverse applications.
Improved scaffold generation for protein motifs using SE(3) flow matching.
problem Lack of structural diversity in generated scaffolds for protein motifs.
method Extended FrameFlow for motif-scaffolding with motif amortization and motif guidance.
result 2.5 times more designable and unique motif-scaffolds compared to state-of-the-art.
Motivation: Proteins are known to undergo conformational changes in the course of their functions. The changes in conformation are often attributable to a small fraction of residues within the protein. Therefore identification of these variable regions is important for an understanding of protein function. Results: We …
Long, flexible physical filaments are naturally tangled and knotted, from macroscopic string down to long-chain molecules. The existence of knotting in a filament naturally affects its configuration and properties, and may be very stable or disappear rapidly under manipulation and interaction. Knotting has been previou…
New tools evaluate and optimize conditional sequence models in bioinformatics.
problem Evaluating and optimizing conditional sequence models in bioinformatics.
method Kernel-based discrepancy measure (ACMMD) to estimate model fit and tune hyperparameters.
result Rejects the hypothesis that ProteinMPNN fits its data for various protein families and optimizes model temperature.
AbDiffuser generates full-atom antibodies with sequence and structure fidelity.
problem Generating high-fidelity antibodies with both structure and sequence information.
method Equivariant and physics-informed diffusion model with novel protein structure representation.
result AbDiffuser generates antibodies with sequence and structural properties matching a reference set.
We equip a knot K with a set of colored bonds, that is, colored intervals properly embedded into R3∖K. Such a construction can be viewed as a structure that topologically models a closed protein chain including any type of bridges connecting the backbone residues. We introduce an invariant of su…
Branching Flows generates sequences of varying lengths using binary trees.
problem Generating sequences of unknown lengths or fixed elements.
method A generative modeling framework that evolves states over binary trees, controlling sequence length.
result Branching Flows can generate sequences of varying lengths and mix different types of state spaces.
We detect the backbone of the weighted bipartite network of the Japanese credit market relationships. The backbone is detected by adapting a general method used in the investigation of weighted networks. With this approach we detect a backbone that is statistically validated against a null hypothesis of uniform diversi…
The effective representation of proteins is a crucial task that directly affects the performance of many bioinformatics problems. Related proteins usually bind to similar ligands. Chemical characteristics of ligands are known to capture the functional and mechanistic properties of proteins suggesting that a ligand base…
A new framework uses text descriptions to improve protein design.
problem Lack of effective methods to incorporate textual descriptions in protein design.
method ProteinDT framework that combines text and protein structural information.
result ProteinDT significantly improves protein design accuracy and performance.
Automates neural network design for diverse tasks.
problem Designing neural networks for new, under-explored domains.
method Introduces XD-Operations and a weight-sharing scheme to transform standard backbones into search spaces of operations.
result Models using XD-Operations achieve lower error than baseline and expert-designed networks on diverse tasks.
Deep learning models optimize protein sequences.
problem Optimizing protein properties through sequence design.
method Deep generative models guided by machine learning.
result Improved protein sequence generation from prior knowledge.
Mathematical pipeline identifies structural homology of knotted proteins.
problem Quantification and classification of protein structures, especially knotted proteins, require noise-free and complete data.
method Developed a geometric framework using persistent homology to analyze protein structures.
result Persistent homology accurately represents structural homology of knotted proteins and identifies geometric features of protein entanglement.
A new method scales sparse machine learning to ultra-high dimensional problems.
problem Sparse and interpretable machine learning in ultra-high dimensional data.
method Two-phase approach: backbone set determination followed by reduced problem solving.
result The backbone set contains truly relevant features with high probability.
Deep forecasting models show output heads significantly improve performance on fat-tailed financial returns.
problem Improving deep learning models for forecasting fat-tailed financial returns.
method Comparison of backbone architectures and output heads (point, Gaussian, Gaussian mixture) on S&P 500 monthly log-returns.
result Switching from point to Gaussian heads improves CRPS by about 1.3 percent, and from Gaussian to mixture adds another 2.4 percent.
ProGen models protein sequences for synthetic biology.
problem Generating proteins without structural annotations.
method Trained a 1.2B-parameter language model on 280M protein sequences.
result ProGen generates proteins with fine-grained control and accuracy.
New 3D protein analysis methods improve accuracy.
problem Lack of suitable learning algorithms for protein data.
method Intrinsic-Extrinsic Convolution and Pooling for 3D protein structures.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods on protein analysis tasks.
New method detects and compares folding pathways of knotted proteins.
problem Understanding the function of knots in protein folding.
method Topological analysis of protein knotoid distributions and entanglement.
result Reveals unique folding pathway for shallow knotted Carbonic Anhydrases.
Proteins are commonly used by biochemical industry for numerous processes. Refining these proteins' properties via mutations causes stability effects as well. Accurate computational method to predict how mutations affect protein stability are necessary to facilitate efficient protein design. However, accuracy of predic…
PANDA predicts protein binding affinity changes from sequences, outperforming existing methods.
problem Accurately predicting changes in protein binding affinity due to mutations.
method Sequence-based machine learning approach using protein sequence information.
result PANDA achieves higher Pearson correlation coefficients than existing methods.
A new model explains protein interactions via electron delocalization.
problem Understanding how protein interactions affect each other.
method Quantized discrete differential geometry of n-simplices.
result Allosteric regulation follows from the model of interactions.
EBM predicts protein conformations at atomic scale using crystallized data.
problem Predicting the conformation of a side chain from its context within a protein structure.
method Energy-based model trained on crystallized protein data, evaluating performance on rotamer recovery task.
result EBM achieves performance close to state-of-the-art methods, including Rosetta energy function.
Knot theory applied to proteins, distinguishing folded linear chains.
problem Classifying proteins as unknots when intra-chain interactions are ignored.
method Developing knot theory for folded linear molecular chains, considering self-bonding, and using Gauss codes and quandles.
result Extended knot theory to distinguish topologies of proteins with intra-chain bonds.
Experimental determination of protein function is resource-consuming. As an alternative, computational prediction of protein function has received attention. In this context, protein structural classification (PSC) can help, by allowing for determining structural classes of currently unclassified proteins based on thei…
Protein interactions constitute the fundamental building block of almost every life activity. Identifying protein communities from Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) networks is essential to understand the principles of cellular organization and explore the causes of various diseases. It is critical to integrate multipl…
EGR refines and assesses protein complex structures.
problem Improving the accuracy of protein complex 3D structures for drug discovery.
method E(3)-equivariant graph neural network (GNN) for multi-task refinement and assessment.
result EGR achieves state-of-the-art performance in refining and assessing protein complexes.
We introduce a new model of proteins, which extends and enhances the traditional graphical representation by associating a combinatorial object called a fatgraph to any protein based upon its intrinsic geometry. Fatgraphs can easily be stored and manipulated as triples of permutations, and these methods are therefore a…
Two proteins are homologous if they have a common evolutionary origin, and the binary classification problem is to identify proteins in a candidate set that are homologous to a particular native protein. The feature (explanatory) variables available for classification are various measures of similarity of proteins. The…
As proteins with similar structures often have similar functions, analysis of protein structures can help predict protein functions and is thus important. We consider the problem of protein structure classification, which computationally classifies the structures of proteins into pre-defined groups. We develop a weight…
Flexible Kernels for Protein Property Prediction
problem Predicting protein properties from sparse experimental data
method Sequence kernels using evolutionary substitution matrices and local linearity
result Data-efficient models of protein property landscapes
New method steers protein design towards desired properties.
problem Challenges in designing proteins with specific structures and properties.
method Feynman-Kac framework applied to RFdiffusion models with guiding potentials.
result Significant improvement in predicted interface energetics and binder designability.
ProtTrans models predict protein features without evolutionary info.
problem Predicting protein features from amino acid sequences.
method Self-supervised deep learning on large protein datasets.
result ProtT5 embeddings outperform state-of-the-art for per-residue predictions.
Study improves LLMs for PPI analysis by addressing uncertainty.
problem Uncertainty in LLM predictions for PPIs.
method Fine-tuned LLaMA-3 and BioMedGPT models, LoRA ensembles, Bayesian LoRA for UQ.
result Competitive PPI identification performance across diverse disease contexts.
Rapid progress in deep learning has spurred its application to bioinformatics problems including protein structure prediction and design. In classic machine learning problems like computer vision, progress has been driven by standardized data sets that facilitate fair assessment of new methods and lower the barrier to …
Automated protein function prediction is a challenging problem with distinctive features, such as the hierarchical organization of protein functions and the scarcity of annotated proteins for most biological functions. We propose a multitask learning algorithm addressing both issues. Unlike standard multitask algorithm…
In this paper, we investigate the statistical features of the weighted international-trade network. By finding the maximum weight spanning trees for this network we make the extraction of the truly relevant connections forming the network's backbone. We discuss the role of large-sized countries (strongest economies) in…
Inferring the structural properties of a protein from its amino acid sequence is a challenging yet important problem in biology. Structures are not known for the vast majority of protein sequences, but structure is critical for understanding function. Existing approaches for detecting structural similarity between prot…
Method uses network biology to construct gene expression models for cancer.
problem Building models for cancer phenotypes using gene expression data.
method Unsupervised construction of computational graphs based on protein-protein networks.
result The method outperforms other models in cancer phenotype analysis.
Protein Thoughts interprets protein interactions with clear reasoning, improving prediction accuracy.
problem Lack of mechanistic justification in protein-protein interaction predictions.
method Interpretable search problem reformulation, hypothesis-guided entropy-regularized Tree-of-Thoughts search, embedding-space flow matching.
result Improves mean best-binder rank from 47.7 to 11.2 on SHS148k benchmark.