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most citedDiffPack: A Torsional Diffusion Model for Autoregressive Protein Side-Chain Packing

16 citations · 60 across the 15 of their papers we have counts for

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18 papers

q-bio.GN2026

VenusGenome: Genome-Aware Masked Autoencoding for Microbial Genome Representation Learning

Zhang Liang, Zhang Yukun, Tan Yang +6

Genomic-context models have shown that contextualizing protein embeddings can improve predictions of microbial function. We observe that a gene's protein embedding is partially pre…

cs.CE2026

PROTEAN: Beyond De Novo Generation - Can LLM Agents Perform Text-Guided Protein Structure Editing?

Encheng Su, Xinping Liu, Yizhou Wang +11

Generative AI has achieved remarkable success in de novo protein design, yet protein engineering typically begins with existing, characterized proteins. The primary demand is targe…

cs.AI2026

A General Harness for Protein Foundation Model Fitness Prediction

Yang Tan, Qijia Tian, Gangyu Sun +5

Accurate fitness prediction is central to protein engineering and understanding sequence-function relationships. With advances in deep learning, protein foundation models (PFMs) ha…

cs.CL2026

Accurate, Interdisciplinary and Transparent Structure-property Understanding with Deep Native Structural Reasoning

Chen Tang, Yizhou Wang, Jianyu Wu +26

Structure-property relationships are foundational to biology, chemistry and materials science, where function, reactivity and physical response emerge from spatial, chemical and pe…

cs.AI2026

Self-evolving AI agents for protein discovery and directed evolution

Yang Tan, Lingrong Zhang, Mingchen Li +5

Protein scientific discovery is bottlenecked by the manual orchestration of information and algorithms, while general agents are insufficient in complex domain projects. VenusFacto…

q-bio.QM2026

Rank-and-Reason: Multi-Agent Collaboration Accelerates Zero-Shot Protein Mutation Prediction

Yang Tan, Yuanxi Yu, Can Wu +7

Zero-shot mutation prediction is vital for low-resource protein engineering, yet existing protein language models (PLMs) often yield statistically confident results that ignore fun…

cs.LG2025

VenusX: Unlocking Fine-Grained Functional Understanding of Proteins

Yang Tan, Wenrui Gou, Bozitao Zhong +3

Deep learning models have driven significant progress in predicting protein function and interactions at the protein level. While these advancements have been invaluable for many b…

cs.LG2024

ReactZyme: A Benchmark for Enzyme-Reaction Prediction

Chenqing Hua, Bozitao Zhong, Sitao Luan +4

Enzymes, with their specific catalyzed reactions, are necessary for all aspects of life, enabling diverse biological processes and adaptations. Predicting enzyme functions is essen…

q-bio.QM2024★ 3 cited

Autoregressive Enzyme Function Prediction with Multi-scale Multi-modality Fusion

Dingyi Rong, Wenzhuo Zheng, Bozitao Zhong +3

Accurate prediction of enzyme function is crucial for elucidating biological mechanisms and driving innovation across various sectors. Existing deep learning methods tend to rely s…

q-bio.QM2024★ 1 cited

Protein Representation Learning with Sequence Information Embedding: Does it Always Lead to a Better Performance?

Yang Tan, Lirong Zheng, Bozitao Zhong +2

Deep learning has become a crucial tool in studying proteins. While the significance of modeling protein structure has been discussed extensively in the literature, amino acid type…

cs.CL2024

Simple, Efficient and Scalable Structure-aware Adapter Boosts Protein Language Models

Yang Tan, Mingchen Li, Bingxin Zhou +7

Fine-tuning Pre-trained protein language models (PLMs) has emerged as a prominent strategy for enhancing downstream prediction tasks, often outperforming traditional supervised lea…

q-bio.BM2024

Fusing Neural and Physical: Augment Protein Conformation Sampling with Tractable Simulations

Jiarui Lu, Zuobai Zhang, Bozitao Zhong +2

The protein dynamics are common and important for their biological functions and properties, the study of which usually involves time-consuming molecular dynamics (MD) simulations…

q-bio.QM2023★ 2 cited

PDB-Struct: A Comprehensive Benchmark for Structure-based Protein Design

Chuanrui Wang, Bozitao Zhong, Zuobai Zhang +3

Structure-based protein design has attracted increasing interest, with numerous methods being introduced in recent years. However, a universally accepted method for evaluation has…

q-bio.QM2023★ 10 cited

Str2Str: A Score-based Framework for Zero-shot Protein Conformation Sampling

Jiarui Lu, Bozitao Zhong, Zuobai Zhang +1

The dynamic nature of proteins is crucial for determining their biological functions and properties, for which Monte Carlo (MC) and molecular dynamics (MD) simulations stand as pre…

q-bio.QM2023★ 16 cited

DiffPack: A Torsional Diffusion Model for Autoregressive Protein Side-Chain Packing

Yangtian Zhang, Zuobai Zhang, Bozitao Zhong +2

Proteins play a critical role in carrying out biological functions, and their 3D structures are essential in determining their functions. Accurately predicting the conformation of…

q-bio.BM2022★ 13 cited

Protein Sequence and Structure Co-Design with Equivariant Translation

Chence Shi, Chuanrui Wang, Jiarui Lu +2

Proteins are macromolecules that perform essential functions in all living organisms. Designing novel proteins with specific structures and desired functions has been a long-standi…

q-bio.BM2022★ 15 cited

E3Bind: An End-to-End Equivariant Network for Protein-Ligand Docking

Yangtian Zhang, Huiyu Cai, Chence Shi +2

In silico prediction of the ligand binding pose to a given protein target is a crucial but challenging task in drug discovery. This work focuses on blind flexible selfdocking, wher…

q-bio.BM2021

ParaFold: Paralleling AlphaFold for Large-Scale Predictions

Bozitao Zhong, Xiaoming Su, Minhua Wen +3

AlphaFold predicts protein structures from the amino acid sequence at or near experimental resolution, solving the 50-year-old protein folding challenge, leading to progress by tra…