ProMORNA: An End-to-End Generative Framework for Full-Length mRNA Design
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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-...
arXiv:2505.23862v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The mRNA optimization is essential for mRNA vaccines, therapies, and industrial protein production. Based on current explorations, an ideal o...
arXiv:2510.03811v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: We develop an approach for the de novo synthesis of messenger RNA (mRNA) sequences encoding target proteins. This requires optimizing multiple biol...
Predictor-Guided Latent Space Codon Optimization (LSCO) transforms the discrete codon selection problem into a continuous optimization task by embedding sequences into the latent space of a pretrained mRNA language model, allowing gradient-based search. LSCO integrates a data-driven expression objective from an uncertainty-aware predictor, a Minimum-Free-Energy regularizer for structural stability, a naturalness prior derived from a protein-to-codon back-translation model, and constrained decoding to preserve protein fidelity. In a real-world wet-lab antibody expression dataset, LSCO outperforms both simple frequency-based methods and modern deep generative baselines in predicted expression while maintaining appropriate biophysical properties.
MORAD is an online reinforcement learning framework that trains a single shared policy for backbone‑conditioned RNA diffusion models, enabling structure‑conditioned RNA inverse design across diverse target backbones. It integrates backbone‑conditioned group sampling, group‑relative reward normalization, and a forward‑process diffusion objective, jointly optimizing six measurements—including tertiary geometry, base pairing, ensemble behavior, and sequence composition—by mapping each to a bounded desirability score and combining them with a weighted geometric mean. Compared to a tertiary‑structure‑only reward, MORAD improves 10 of 11 evaluation metrics, achieving significant gains in GDT‑TS, pairing MCC, and normalized ensemble defect, and surpasses existing methods such as RiboDiffusion, gRNAde, and RDesign on tertiary structural accuracy, secondary‑structure pairing, and thermodynamic quality.
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...