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Composite-objective protein design framework integrating Boltz, AlphaFold2, OpenFold3, ProteinMPNN, and ESM via JAX-based gradient optimization over continuous relaxed sequence space for multi-property binder design (319+ stars, MIT License, 2025)

AlphaFold/ESMFold accessible implementation with AF3 JSON export, database updates

Cross-platform system optimizations for accelerating AlphaFold3 training with 1.73x speedup and 1.23x memory reduction

General-purpose deep learning backbone for molecular modeling

Microsoft's generative model for sampling protein equilibrium conformations 100,000× faster than MD simulations, predicting domain motions, local unfolding and cryptic binding pockets on a single GPU (Science 2025)

Programmatic framework for designing state-switching proteins via backpropagation through compositional design constraints parameterized by structure prediction models; enables de novo design of allosteric regulators and fluorescent biosensors for arbitrary small-molecule analytes (79+ stars, MIT License, ICML 2026)

First fully open-source model achieving AlphaFold3-level accuracy with 1000x faster binding affinity prediction (MIT)

Generative foundation model for functional antibody and nanobody design, supporting de novo generation, affinity maturation, inverse design, structure prediction, and humanization (Tencent AI4S, ICLR 2025)

Automatic atomic model building program for cryo-EM maps using deep learning, enabling rapid de novo protein structure determination from electron density with high accuracy (3DEM/EMBL, 169+ stars)

Simple and accurate de novo protein binder design pipeline using AlphaFold2 backpropagation, MPNN, and PyRosetta for automated binder discovery (bioRxiv 2024)

Learning the language of protein-protein interactions

AlphaFold fine-tuned with flow matching for generating protein conformational ensembles, covering both experimental PDB states and molecular dynamics ensembles at physiological temperatures; includes ESMFlow variant (MIT, 526+ stars, 2024)

Structure-aware protein language model using 3D structural vocabulary (Foldseek) for joint sequence-structure pretraining, achieving SOTA on protein engineering and fitness prediction benchmarks (ICML 2024, Westlake University & Repl)

Bilingual protein language model translating between protein sequence and structure, finetuned from ProtT5-XL on 17M AlphaFoldDB structures using Foldseek's 3Di structural alphabet, enabling sequence-to-structure prediction, structure-to-sequence inverse folding, and unified protein representation learning (RostLab, 310+ stars)

Flow-matching protein folding model using only general-purpose transformer layers, scaled to 3B parameters and trained on 8.6M+ distilled structures; challenges the reliance on complex domain-specific architectures and supports PyTorch and MLX backends with model sizes from 100M to 3B parameters (985+ stars, MIT License)

Discrete diffusion framework for generative protein sequence design over evolutionary-scale databases, supporting unconditional generation, evolutionary-guided conditional design, motif scaffolding, and intrinsically disordered region generation through order-agnostic autoregressive diffusion, enabling sequence-only protein design without structural priors (Microsoft Research, Nature Communications 2024)

Deep equivariant generative model predicting ligand-specific protein-ligand complex structures with dynamic receptor conformational flexibility, enabling accurate docking for flexible protein targets

Discovering interpretable features in protein language models via sparse autoencoders, enabling mechanistic understanding of PLM representations for protein engineering and design (288+ stars, MIT License)

Universal 3D molecular pretraining framework with 209M conformations, scaling to 1.1B parameters (Uni-Mol2) on 800M conformations for molecular property prediction, docking, and quantum chemistry (ICLR 2023, NeurIPS 2024)

State-of-the-art pretrained language models for proteins trained on thousands of GPUs and Google TPUs using Transformer architectures, enabling protein property prediction, feature extraction, and transfer learning across diverse downstream tasks (1.3K+ stars, MIT, 2020-2026)

Diffusion-based molecular docking achieving SOTA blind docking performance, treating ligand pose prediction as generative diffusion over SE(3), with DiffDock-L update for improved generalization (MIT CSAIL, ICLR 2023)

Extension of ProteinMPNN for protein sequence design in the context of small-molecule ligands, metal ions, and nucleic acids, enabling binding site engineering and co-factor redesign (Baker Lab)

Large-scale biomolecular instruction dataset for chemistry/biology LLMs (ICLR2024)

Chemical language model

Deep learning-based protein sequence design (inverse folding) from backbone structures, achieving 52.4% sequence recovery vs 32.9% for Rosetta, core tool in modern protein design pipelines (Baker Lab, Science 2022)