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Open access Sep 2026

LucaCell: a sequence-centric foundation model for cross-species single-cell analysis

LucaCell, a sequence-centric foundation model that represents genes through pre-trained mRNA sequence embeddings rather than static gene annotations, is presented, showing that sequence-informed gene representation can improve the generalization of single-cell foundation models across species, data types, and predictiv...

Yan Sun, Yong He, Min-Si Ren et al. · 0 citations
Jul 2026

Exploring the Alignment of Generation and Understanding in Protein Structure Modeling

Understanding and generation are often treated as two separate paradigms in training deep neural networks, despite the fact that both are trained with closely related objectives such as denoising and masked prediction. While prior studies have shown that generative models often learn suboptimal representations for unde...

Junde Xu, Yuan-Sheng Huang, Zijun Gao et al. · 0 citations

LumiCharge: Spherical Harmonic Convolutional Networks for Atomic Charge Prediction in Drug Discovery.

This work proposes LumiCharge, a novel atomic charge prediction framework that incorporates high-order spherical harmonics convolutions and explicitly models multibody interactions, and demonstrates exceptional extrapolation capability and robustness across molecules of varying sizes, effectively overcoming the limitat...

Qun Su, Hui Zhang, Qiaolin Gou et al. · 2 citations

ChargeNet: E(3) Equivariant Graph Attention Network for Atomic Charge Prediction

This work introduces an advanced equivariant graph attention neural network specifically engineered to model long-range atomic electrostatic interactions with high precision, and improves the model's accuracy, generalization, and robustness in complex scenarios.

Qiaolin Gou, Qun Su, Ji-Ke Wang et al. · 1 citation

PepPCBench is a Comprehensive Benchmarking Framework for Protein-Peptide Complex Structure Prediction

PepPCBench enables a robust evaluation of PFNN-based methods and supports their continued development for peptide-protein structure prediction, and highlights the influence of peptide length, conformational flexibility, and training set similarity on prediction accuracy.

Si-Long Zhai, Huifeng Zhao, Ji-Ke Wang et al. · 13 citations · ⚡1

CarsiDock-Cov: A deep learning-guided approach for automated covalent docking and screening

CarsiDock-Cov is presented, a new paradigm distinguishing itself as the first deep learning (DL)-guided approach for covalent docking, offering an automated and efficient solution that shows considerable promise for accelerating covalent drug discovery and design.

Chao Shen, Hongyan Du, Xujun Zhang et al. · 12 citations
#computer vision Oct 2025

ECloudGen: leveraging electron clouds as a latent variable to scale up structure-based molecular design

This study presents ECloudGen, which uses latent diffusion to generate electron clouds from protein pockets and decodes them into molecules, and adopts two-stage training, which expands the chemical space accessible to generative drug design.

Odin Zhang, Jieyu Jin, Zhenxing Wu et al. · 4 citations
#machine learning Open access Jul 2025

Effective generation of heavy-atom-free triplet photosensitizers containing multiple intersystem crossing mechanisms based on deep learning

This work proposes a novel strategy that incorporates two models: a fragment-based model (Frag-MD) and a character-based model (MD), both integrating a conditional transformer, recurrent neural networks, and reinforcement learning that holds the potential to establish a new paradigm for discovering novel PSs applicable...

Kepeng Chen, Xiaoting Zhang, Ji-Ke Wang et al. · 4 citations

Protein–peptide docking with a rational and accurate diffusion generative model

RAPiDock is presented, an all-atom diffusion model that predicts peptide–protein binding patterns across 92 amino acid types, enabling high-throughput virtual screening for advancing therapeutic peptide design and serve as a powerful tool for high-throughput virtual screening with structural precision.

Huifeng Zhao, Odin Zhang, Dejun Jiang et al. · 21 citations · ⚡2
#computer vision Nov 2025

Improving the predictive performance of binding affinities and poses for protein–cyclic peptide complexes through fine-tuned MM/PBSA(GBSA)-based methods

Abstract Cyclic peptides represent a highly promising class of biopharmaceutical scaffolds. The screening of cyclic peptides against protein targets can be greatly facilitated using computational approaches, especially molecular docking. However, it remains a crucial challenge to accurately predict protein–cyclic pepti...

Huifeng Zhao, Jianxiang Huang, Gaoqi Weng et al. · 10 citations

Revisiting Protein-Protein Docking: A Systematic Evaluation Framework

A unified benchmarking framework is established that enables systematic evaluation of docking methods across diverse tasks and provides critical insights into the strengths and limitations of current docking strategies, thereby informing future developments in protein-protein docking research.

Linlong Jiang, Ke Zhang, Kai Zhu et al. · 3 citations

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