Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) induce protein degradation by recruiting a target protein to an E3 ubiquitin ligase, making degradation a joint outcome of the degrader molecule and its biological context. Although public databases contain thousands of structured molecule-target-E3 records, degradation measurements are available for only a small fraction of them.
arXiv:2606. 04021v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Proteolysis-targeting chimeras (PROTACs) can selectively degrade disease-causing proteins, yet predicting which targets are amenable to degradation remains a critical bottleneck: existing computational methods require the complete PROTAC molecular structure, information unavailable before synthesis.
By Bryan Cheng, Austin Jin
arXiv:2606. 31126v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Predicting biomolecular properties from limited labeled data is a central bottleneck in protein engineering and small-molecule design.
By Davy Guan, Lu Zhang, Asiri Wijesinghe, Allen Zhu, He Zhao, Helen Power, F. Hafna Ahmed, Andrew Warden, Cheng Soon Ong, Daniel M. Steinberg
arXiv:2606. 16044v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Protein language models (pLMs) can generate novel protein sequences with properties beyond those observed in nature, yet the mechanisms underlying protein generation remain poorly understood.
By Darin Tsui, William Deinzer, Daniel Saeedi, Amirali Aghazadeh
arXiv:2606. 18703v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Pretrained biological language models expose per-token probability distributions through masked-token prediction, providing the likelihood interface central to sequence design, variant scoring, and mechanistic interpretation.
By Yanjun Shao, Yundi Chen, Yashvi Patel, Aurelien Pelissier, Mar\'ia Rodr\'iguez Mart\'inez
arXiv:2607. 17671v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Large-scale single-cell perturbation atlases make it possible to ask an inverse question: given an observed transcriptional response, which annotated targets and compounds in a fixed library are most consistent with that response?
By Kseniia Vaniushkina, Jeongmin Lim, Jinyong Park