Target-specific peptide design requires sequence and structure co-design under full atom geometric constraints. Latent generative frameworks offer an effective route for this problem by compressing fine grained atomic structures into block level latent representations and performing conditional generation in a compact latent space.
arXiv:2607. 09998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Macrocyclic peptides are an increasingly important therapeutic modality, but existing computational methods for modeling their structures and properties are limited in scope and do not generalize well across the synthetically accessible chemical space.
By Vilya Research, :, Pascal Sturmfels, Milad Salem, Naozumi Hiranuma, Stephen Rettie, Xiaoliang Pan, Benjamin D. Sellers, Adam P. Moyer, Patrick J. Salveson, Ivan Anishchanka
arXiv:2607. 03787v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Accurately modeling biomolecular interactions is a central bottleneck in biology and therapeutic discovery.
By Aureka AI OpenDDE project
arXiv:2609.08333v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: In molecular discovery, molecule size is coupled to composition, structure, and other target properties. Yet most 3D generators require molecule size...
By Weichi Yao, Cameron Gruich, Bryan R. Goldsmith, Yixin Wang
The paper introduces Equivariant-Free Transformer-Autoencoded Latent Flow Matching (EF‑TALFM), a two‑stage generative framework that uses a single fixed‑dimensional latent vector to produce variable‑size 3D molecules. The first stage samples the latent vector via flow matching, and the second stage employs an autoregressive Transformer decoder that determines molecule size while generating atom types, coordinates, and chemical states. EF‑TALFM outperforms prior methods on the PCQM4Mv2 benchmark, achieving higher uniqueness, novelty, and computational throughput, and its internal ranking improves the hit rate for target HOMO–LUMO gaps while maintaining novelty.
CODesign is a co-design framework that jointly generates protein sequences and structures to improve consistency between them. It introduces a large consistency‑distilled dataset of about 105,000 dimers and employs a multimodal joint flow model with a consistency‑aware resampling strategy to iteratively refine sequences and side chains. The approach achieves state‑of‑the‑art in silico success rates for protein‑ and ligand‑target binder design, with ablation studies showing a 70.9% performance boost from the distilled dataset and further gains from the resampling mechanism.
By Yuanle Mo, Bo Qiang, Haitao Lin, Qinghan Wang, Gang Du, Odin Zhang, Pheng Ann Heng