arXiv:2603. 19636v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Accurate RNA structure modeling remains difficult because RNA backbones are highly flexible, non-canonical interactions are prevalent, and experimentally determined 3D structures are comparatively scarce.
By Zhou Zhang, Hanqun Cao, Cheng Tan, Fang Wu, Pheng Ann Heng, Tianfan Fu
La‑Ribo is a generative framework that jointly designs RNA nucleotide sequences and their three‑dimensional structures using geometry‑latent flow matching. It preserves a sparse phosphate‑sugar‑base scaffold while encoding nucleotide identity and local conformation in residue‑wise latent variables, which a shared flow network generates before an RNA‑specific decoder reconstructs all heavy atoms. The authors also built a large, quality‑controlled corpus of 168,561 RNA structures—combining experimental data with predictions from three folding models—to expand supervision, and demonstrate that La‑Ribo outperforms baselines in designability and co‑designability across sampling budgets and refolding models, while also enabling scaffold‑conditioned inverse folding without extra training.
By Runze Ma, Will Hua, Shuangjia Zheng
The paper introduces GOLD, a Geometric Optimized Latent Diffusion framework that jointly models RNA sequences and their side‑chain geometries in a unified latent space using a novel GeoVAE. By co‑diffusing sequence and structure and employing a gradient‑guided sampling step that enforces physical constraints, GOLD achieves superior performance in sequence recovery, secondary structure validity, and 3D foldability compared to existing inverse‑folding methods.
By Qi Si, Xuyang Liu, Penglei Wang, Shuo Su, Limei Han, Mengzhu Li, Xin Guo, Yuan Qi, Yuan Cheng
Eco‑RNA is an 80‑million‑parameter RNA foundation model that introduces adjustable inference depth via learned iterative refinement. The shared, input‑conditioned Transformer core repeatedly refines sequence representations, with the number of iterations chosen after training to control effective depth. On the RNAGym fitness benchmark, increasing iterations from one to four improves Spearman correlation from 0.242 to 0.286, and at four iterations Eco‑RNA outperforms the 40‑billion‑parameter Evo 2 model across all aggregate fitness metrics, while also excelling in non‑coding RNA classification, secondary‑structure prediction, and chemical probing profile prediction.
By Pengan Chen, Liang Hong, Xinyuan Liu, Han Huang, Ziqian Lin, Jiayang Chen, Yimin Fan, Jiyue Jiang, Yu Li
arXiv:2609.36885v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: RNA design aims to identify sequences that fold into specified secondary structures. Existing methods formulate the task as target-specific search or...
By Zefeng Lin, Xianyong Fang, Tianfan Fu, Xiaohua Xu
arXiv:2607. 15309v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Proteins function through coordinated motion across multiple spatial and temporal scales, underpinning processes such as ligand binding, allostery, and catalysis.
By Kaihui Cheng, Zhiqiang Cai, Peng Tu, Yisong Yao, Limei Han, Libo Wu, Siyu Zhu, Tzuhsiung Yang, Yuan Qi
arXiv:2608.22849v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Full-length RNAs, particularly messenger RNAs, often exceed the context lengths used to pretrain existing RNA foundation models, limiting complete-...
By Ziyuan Wang, Bohao Tang, Fei Zhang, Shuo Han, Pengfei Liu
arXiv:2410.20317v2 Announce Type: replace
Abstract: Molecular dynamics (MD) simulations are a principled but computationally expensive approach for studying protein conformational variability, making...
By Siddharth Viswanath, Xingzhi Sun, Lucas Lee, Danqi Liao, Hiren Madhu, David R. Johnson, Jo\~ao Felipe Rocha, Egbert Castro, Jackson D. Grady, Michael Perlmutter, Dhananjay Bhaskar, Smita Krishnaswamy
arXiv:2608. 13800v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Transition path sampling (TPS) aims to efficiently generate rare molecular transition trajectories between metastable states and is essential for understanding biomolecular mechanisms.
By Jingqian Liu, Yu-Hsiang Wang, Yanru Qu, Ge Liu
arXiv:2606. 05198v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Nucleic acids are increasingly recognized as therapeutic targets beyond conventional protein-centered drug discovery, yet accurate and efficient docking of small molecules to nucleic acid structures remains challenging.
By Shi Li (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China), Xujun Zhang (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China), Mingquan Liu (Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Macau SAR, China), Hui Zhang (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China, Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China), Shuoying Jia (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China, Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China), Yu Kang (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China, Shanghai Innovation Institute, Shanghai, China), Tingjun Hou (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Intelligent Drug Discovery and Development, Jinhua Institute of Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China), Peichen Pan (College of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou, Zhejiang, P. R. China, Zhejiang Provincial Key Laboratory for Intelligent Drug Discovery and Development, Jinhua Institute of Zhejiang University, Zhejiang, China)
arXiv:2608.21070v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Inferring continuous system evolution from sparse temporal snapshots is a key challenge in generative modeling and single-cell omics. While Optimal T...
By Yuhao Sun, Zekun Wu, Zixun Huang, Peijie Zhou
The paper introduces SIRGE, a sequence-informed geometric evaluator for RNA 3D structures that integrates nucleotide embeddings from a pretrained RNA language model into structural representations. SIRGE demonstrates superior performance over existing evaluators in Kendall–τ alignment, Top‑1 selection, and Top‑3 ranking. Controlled experiments reveal that sequence conditioning corrects errors of a purely geometric model and enhances target‑level ranking, suggesting that pretrained sequence representations provide complementary ranking information to geometric reasoning.
By Andrea Zerio, Yighua Yao, Alessandro Micheli, Roland G. Huber, Mile Sikic, Samir Bhatt, Andres R. Masegosa, Yuangang Pan