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SurfDesign: Effective Protein Design on Molecular Surfaces

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arXiv:2606. 07567v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Protein function is largely determined by molecular surface geometry and physicochemical complementarity, yet most protein design methods condition only on backbone structure.

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SymFold: Synergizing Evolutionary and Structural Priors for Accurate Protein Inverse Folding

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