Joint Discrete and SE(3) Diffusion for Protein Interface Design
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The paper introduces PIFT, a framework that transfers peptide‑target interaction patterns to small molecules by jointly guiding masked discrete diffusion and continuous flow matching. PIFT maps peptide‑target and small‑molecule‑target interfaces into a shared, target‑conditioned interaction space, enabling peptide‑derived references to steer both building‑block logits and 3D coordinates toward peptide‑compatible molecules while maintaining a strong molecular prior. Experiments on diverse protein‑protein interaction targets demonstrate that this cross‑modal representation improves interface recovery, docking performance, and molecular properties.
arXiv:2506. 14488v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Structure-based drug design (SBDD) models are central to modern pharmaceutical research, enabling the rational exploration of protein-ligand interactions at atomic resolution.
arXiv:2606. 23856v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Generative molecular models for drug design are a promising direction with much active research.
FuseDiff is an end‑to‑end diffusion model designed for dual‑target structure‑based drug design, jointly generating a ligand graph and two pocket‑specific binding poses conditioned on both target pockets. It employs a message‑passing backbone with Dual‑target Local Context Fusion (DLCF) to fuse ligand atom contexts from both pockets, preserving symmetry while enabling expressive joint modeling. The model enforces topological consistency across the two poses and allows target‑specific geometric adaptation, achieving state‑of‑the‑art docking performance and enabling systematic assessment of dual‑target pose quality before docking‑based pose search.
arXiv:2610.04850v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Protein binding prediction is central to target identification, therapeutic binder design, and large scale screening, yet remains challenging becau...
arXiv:2510.03095v4 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Diffusion- and flow-based generative models have recently demonstrated strong performance in protein backbone generation tasks, offering unpreceden...