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most citedBenchmarking Generated Poses: How Rational is Structure-based Drug Design with Generative Models?

23 citations · 54 across the 14 of their papers we have counts for

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14 papers

cs.LG2026★ 1 cited

Scaling Atomistic Protein Binder Design with Generative Pretraining and Test-Time Compute

Kieran Didi, Zuobai Zhang, Guoqing Zhou +11

Protein interaction modeling is central to protein design, which has been transformed by machine learning with applications in drug discovery and beyond. In this landscape, structu…

q-bio.BM2025

Consistent Synthetic Sequences Unlock Structural Diversity in Fully Atomistic De Novo Protein Design

Danny Reidenbach, Zhonglin Cao, Zuobai Zhang +8

High-quality training datasets are crucial for the development of effective protein design models, but existing synthetic datasets often include unfavorable sequence-structure pair…

q-bio.BM2025

Flows, straight but not so fast: Exploring the design space of Rectified Flows in Protein Design

Junhua Chen, Simon Mathis, Charles Harris +2

Generative modeling techniques such as Diffusion and Flow Matching have achieved significant successes in generating designable and diverse protein backbones. However, many current…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

La-Proteina: Atomistic Protein Generation via Partially Latent Flow Matching

Tomas Geffner, Kieran Didi, Zhonglin Cao +6

Recently, many generative models for de novo protein structure design have emerged. Yet, only few tackle the difficult task of directly generating fully atomistic structures jointl…

cs.LG2025★ 1 cited

Compositional Flows for 3D Molecule and Synthesis Pathway Co-design

Tony Shen, Seonghwan Seo, Ross Irwin +4

Many generative applications, such as synthesis-based 3D molecular design, involve constructing compositional objects with continuous features. Here, we introduce Compositional Gen…

cs.LG2025★ 3 cited

Proteina: Scaling Flow-based Protein Structure Generative Models

Tomas Geffner, Kieran Didi, Zuobai Zhang +8

Recently, diffusion- and flow-based generative models of protein structures have emerged as a powerful tool for de novo protein design. Here, we develop Proteina, a new large-scale…

cs.LG2025★ 2 cited

MotifBench: A standardized protein design benchmark for motif-scaffolding problems

Zhuoqi Zheng, Bo Zhang, Kieran Didi +5

The motif-scaffolding problem is a central task in computational protein design: Given the coordinates of atoms in a geometry chosen to confer a desired biochemical function (a mot…

cs.LG2024★ 11 cited

BioNeMo Framework: a modular, high-performance library for AI model development in drug discovery

Peter St. John, Dejun Lin, Polina Binder +89

Artificial Intelligence models encoding biology and chemistry are opening new routes to high-throughput and high-quality in-silico drug development. However, their training increas…

cs.LG2024★ 6 cited

Evaluating representation learning on the protein structure universe

Arian R. Jamasb, Alex Morehead, Chaitanya K. Joshi +8

We introduce ProteinWorkshop, a comprehensive benchmark suite for representation learning on protein structures with Geometric Graph Neural Networks. We consider large-scale pre-tr…

q-bio.BM2024★ 1 cited

RNA-FrameFlow: Flow Matching for de novo 3D RNA Backbone Design

Rishabh Anand, Chaitanya K. Joshi, Alex Morehead +7

We introduce RNA-FrameFlow, the first generative model for 3D RNA backbone design. We build upon SE(3) flow matching for protein backbone generation and establish protocols for dat…

cs.LG2024★ 2 cited

DEFT: Efficient Fine-Tuning of Diffusion Models by Learning the Generalised -transform

Alexander Denker, Francisco Vargas, Shreyas Padhy +7

Generative modelling paradigms based on denoising diffusion processes have emerged as a leading candidate for conditional sampling in inverse problems. In many real-world applicati…

cs.LG2023★ 1 cited

A framework for conditional diffusion modelling with applications in motif scaffolding for protein design

Kieran Didi, Francisco Vargas, Simon V Mathis +4

Many protein design applications, such as binder or enzyme design, require scaffolding a structural motif with high precision. Generative modelling paradigms based on denoising dif…

q-bio.BM2023★ 23 cited

Benchmarking Generated Poses: How Rational is Structure-based Drug Design with Generative Models?

Charles Harris, Kieran Didi, Arian R. Jamasb +4

Deep generative models for structure-based drug design (SBDD), where molecule generation is conditioned on a 3D protein pocket, have received considerable interest in recent years.…

cs.AI2022

On How AI Needs to Change to Advance the Science of Drug Discovery

Kieran Didi, Matej Zečević

Research around AI for Science has seen significant success since the rise of deep learning models over the past decade, even with longstanding challenges such as protein structure…