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ABOPD: Antibody CDR Design via On-Policy Distillation

arXiv:2607. 18835v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Antibodies are essential therapeutic molecules, and their complementarity-determining regions (CDRs) form the primary antigen-recognition interface.

arXiv Machine Learning
Aug 12

AgForce Enables Antigen-conditioned Generative Antibody Design

arXiv:2605. 21610v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Antibody design methods condition on antigen structure to generate complementarity-determining regions (CDR), yet a systematic evaluation of baseline methods reveals that they largely ignore the antigen input.

By Mansoor Ahmed, Murray Patterson
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 4

DuaDeep-SeqAffinity: Dual-Branch Deep Learning for Tri-Stream Sequence-Based Antibody--Antigen Affinity Prediction

DuaDeep-SeqAffinity is a sequence-only deep learning framework that predicts antibody–antigen binding affinity directly from primary amino acid sequences, eliminating the need for resolved 3D structures. The model processes the antigen and the antibody heavy and light chains as three independent streams, each embedded with a frozen ESM‑2 protein language model and passed through parallel Transformer and CNN branches before late fusion. On a sequence‑disjoint split of the AbRank benchmark, it achieves a Pearson correlation of 0.683, an R² of 0.460, and a pairwise ranking AUC of 0.895, outperforming single‑branch ablations and showing attention to CDR loops and epitope residues.

By Aicha Boutorh, Soumia Bouyahiaoui, Manel Kara Laouar, Sara Belhadj, Nour El Yakine Guendouz, Asma Boutorh
Hugging Face Trending Papers
Jul 22

Antigen-specific Antibody Multi-modal Foundation Model for Functional Antibody Design

Antibodies are essential proteins that play a central role in immune recognition by binding specific antigen molecules. Although recent protein language models have enabled progress in single-chain protein modeling and generation, they often fall short in antigen-specific antibody design, where effective modeling requires explicit pairing between antibody and antigen, particularly at the epitope level.

arXiv AI
Sep 15

AbFlow : End-to-end Paratope-Centric Antibody Design by Interaction Enhanced Flow Matching

AbFlow is a one‑step flow‑matching framework that designs full‑atom antibodies end‑to‑end, focusing on the paratope region. It uses an equivariant Surface Multi‑channel Encoder to incorporate surface‑level antigen interaction data, refining especially the CDR‑H3 region. Experiments demonstrate that AbFlow generates superior antigen‑antibody complexes with improved binding affinity, particularly at the contact interface.

By Wenda Wang, Yang Zhang, Zhewei Wei, Wenbing Huang
arXiv Machine Learning
Sep 10

PocketVE: Stable and Property-Guided Structure-Based Drug Design with Variance-Exploding Diffusion

PocketVE is a protein-pocket-conditioned variance‑exploding diffusion framework that integrates stable 3D coordinate denoising, classifier‑free property guidance, and adaptive protein perturbation. It improves 3D validity from 58.6% to 80.6% and reduces strain energy from 457.4 to 127.9 on CrossDocked2020 while maintaining competitive docking and property scores. The study shows moderate guidance balances target objectives with geometric quality, and diagnostics confirm enhanced pocket compatibility.

By Peining Zhang, Jinbo Bi