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AgentFold: Closed-Loop Agentic Search for Protein Folding Model Design
Mingquan Liu, Jiangyu Chen, Hanqun Cao +9
Scientific LLM agents have shown promise in literature reasoning, tool use, and experiment planning, but it remains unclear whether they can autonomously improve large, tightly cou…
SF-Cluster: Frustration-Guided MSA Subsampling for Alternative Protein Conformation Recovery
Hanqun Cao, Zijun Gao, Chunbin Gu +3
Deep-learning structure predictors are sensitive to their multiple sequence alignment (MSA) input, making MSA subsampling a practical route to recovering alternative conformations.…
AlloGen: Conformation-Selective Binder Generation with Differential State Scoring
Hanqun Cao, Zachary Quinn, Aastha Pal +4
Protein binder design has largely optimized for affinity alone, leaving conformational selectivity unaddressed: for allosteric targets such as kinases, nuclear receptors, and GPCRs…
GeoCycler: Reward-Aligned 3D Diffusion for Constraint-Conditioned Cyclic Peptide Design
Jingjie Zhang, Hanqun Cao, Haosen Shi +10
Cyclic peptides are attractive therapeutic modalities because their closed-ring topology can improve stability and target specificity. However, de novo cyclic peptide design remain…
TD3B: Transition-Directed Discrete Diffusion for Allosteric Binder Generation
Hanqun Cao, Aastha Pal, Sophia Tang +4
Protein function is often controlled by ligands that bias the direction of state transitions, such as agonists and antagonists, rather than stabilizing a single conformation. This…
CA-DEL: An Open Multi-Target, Multi-Modal Benchmark for Learning from DNA-Encoded Library Screens
Mutian He, Hanqun Cao, Cheng Tan +4
The success of machine learning in drug discovery hinges on learning the relationship between a chemical structure and its biological activity. While DNA-Encoded Library (DEL) tech…
NoiseRater: Meta-Learned Noise Valuation for Diffusion Model Training
Fang Wu, Haokai Zhao, Da Xing +18
Training a diffusion model involves two sources of randomness for each data sample: the timestep and the Gaussian noise realization. The timestep has been studied extensively throu…
Proteo-R1: Reasoning Foundation Models for De Novo Protein Design
Fang Wu, Weihao Xuan, Heli Qi +26
Deep learning in de novo protein design has achieved atomic-level fidelity. However, existing models remain largely non-deliberative: they directly synthesize molecular geometries…
Bi-TEAM: A Unified Cross-Scale Representation Learning Framework for Chemically Modified Biomolecules
Chunbin Gu, Zijun Gao, Mutian He +8
Representation learning for protein biochemical space faces a difficult trade-off: protein language models excel at capturing long-range biological semantics but often miss fine-gr…
RiboSphere: Learning Unified and Efficient Representations of RNA Structures
Zhou Zhang, Hanqun Cao, Cheng Tan +3
Accurate RNA structure modeling remains difficult because RNA backbones are highly flexible, non-canonical interactions are prevalent, and experimentally determined 3D structures a…