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Neural network-based cryo-EM heterogeneous reconstruction, modeling continuous 3D structure distributions from single-particle images, with CryoDRGN-ET extending to in-cell cryo-electron tomography (MIT CSAIL, Nature Methods 2021/2024)

98B-parameter frontier generative model jointly reasoning over protein sequence, structure, and function, trained on 2.78 billion proteins; generated a novel fluorescent protein (esmGFP) with only 58% sequence identity to known GFPs (EvolutionaryScale, 2024)

AlphaFold 3 inference pipeline for unified biomolecular structure prediction of proteins, nucleic acids, small molecules, ions, and post-translational modifications (Google DeepMind, Nature 2024)

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)

General multimodal protein design framework enabling DNA-encoding of chemistry for programmable enzyme design and diverse protein generation through diffusion-based generative modeling (190+ stars, Apache 2.0, 2026)

Fast and accurate protein structure search using a learned 3Di structural alphabet (VQ-VAE) that discretizes tertiary interactions into structural tokens, enabling protein-universe-scale structural alignment at sequence-search speeds (4-5 orders of magnitude faster than DALI/TM-align) and underpinning many AI4S tools such as SaProt, ESMAtlas search, and AFDB clustering pipelines (Steinegger Lab, Nature Biotechnology 2023)

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)

Learning the language of protein-protein interactions

Multi-modal foundation model for biomolecular structure prediction (proteins, small molecules, DNA, RNA, glycans) achieving SOTA across benchmarks, with optional MSA/template support (Chai Discovery, 2024)

Accessible protein design platform via Google Colab integrating AlphaFold2, RoseTTAFold, and ProteinMPNN for de novo hallucination, fixed backbone design, and binder design (Sergey Ovchinnikov, 2022+)

Unified ML/DL framework for drug discovery workflows, integrating RDKit, DeepChem, and scikit-learn with SHAP explainability

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)

Multimodal deep learning framework integrating peptide-MHC protein sequence, structure, and biochemical properties to predict class-I immunogenicity for infectious disease epitopes and cancer neoepitopes with cancer-wildtype contrastive learning, enabling personalized vaccine design (Krishnaswamy Lab, Yale University)

Rectified Quaternion Flow for efficient protein backbone generation, 37× faster than RFDiffusion with 0.972 designability (ICML 2025)

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)

ICML 2025 drug discovery generalist using masked discrete diffusion and fragment-based generation with molecular context guidance (NVIDIA)

Fast, modular, and accurate de novo design of protein binders based on the Protenix foundation model, achieving 17-82% nanomolar hit rates across diverse targets with 2-6× improvement over prior methods like AlphaProteo and RFdiffusion (229+ stars, Apache 2.0)

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

Trainable, memory-efficient PyTorch reproduction and retraining of AlphaFold2 providing new insights into its learning dynamics and out-of-distribution generalization; widely used as the open-source AlphaFold2 backbone underpinning many downstream protein structure prediction and design pipelines (Columbia AlQuraishi Lab & OpenFold Consortium, Nature Methods 2024)

State-specific protein-ligand complex structure prediction with a multi-scale deep generative model, enabling conformational state-aware modeling of molecular interactions (329+ stars, 2024)

Dynamic Protein Data Bank integrating dynamic behaviors and physical properties into protein structures via a new dataset and SE(3) model extension, enabling richer understanding of protein conformational landscapes (Fudan University, 784+ stars)

Family of diffusion protein language models demonstrating versatile generative and predictive capabilities for protein sequences and structures, including multimodal co-generation, conditional folding, inverse folding, motif scaffolding, and representation learning, with open pretrained weights and training scripts (327+ stars, ICML 2024, ICLR 2025, ICML 2025 Spotlight)

In silico directed evolution framework using few-shot active learning to optimize protein activities, enabling rapid protein engineering with minimal experimental data (352+ stars, 2023)

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)

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)

Diffusion model for scalable protein structure design with multi-motif scaffolding capabilities, achieving state-of-the-art designability, diversity, and novelty through SE(3)-equivariant attention and massive data augmentation (AlQuraishi Lab, 2024)

General-purpose deep learning backbone for molecular modeling

Generative model for programmable protein design using diffusion modeling, equivariant graph neural networks, and conditional random fields to efficiently sample diverse all-atom structures; supports conditional generation via composable conditioners for substructure, symmetry, shape, and neural-network predictions; validated crystallographically (Generate Biomedicines, Nature 2023)

3D Equivariant Diffusion for Target-Aware Molecule Generation (ICLR2023)

Protein structure prediction

Deep learning system for de novo design of high-affinity protein binders, achieving strong binding across diverse target classes including challenging intracellular proteins with significantly higher success rates than traditional wet-lab screening methods (Google DeepMind, Nature 2024)

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

Fully open-source (Apache 2.0) biomolecular structure prediction reproducing AlphaFold3, free for academic and commercial use (Columbia AlQuraishi Lab & OpenFold Consortium, 2025)

Trainable PyTorch reproduction of AlphaFold 3

Baidu's open-source reproduction of AlphaFold3 in PaddlePaddle, providing pretrained weights and inference pipelines for unified biomolecular structure prediction across proteins, nucleic acids, ligands, ions, and post-translational modifications within the PaddleHelix biocomputing platform (Baidu, bioRxiv 2024)

All-atom biomolecular structure prediction for protein-nucleic acid-small molecule-metal ion complexes, enabling accurate modeling of covalent modifications and assemblies beyond proteins (Baker Lab, Science 2024)

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

Flow-based generative model for atomistic protein binder design with test-time optimization, SOTA on binder benchmarks (ICLR 2026 Oral, NVIDIA)

Partially latent flow matching model for the joint generation of a protein's amino acid sequence and full atomistic structure, including both backbone and side chains (2025)

Democratizing AlphaFold3: PyTorch reimplementation to accelerate protein structure prediction research

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

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)

Deep learning framework for molecular docking extending AutoDock Vina with convolutional neural network scoring functions, achieving superior virtual screening enrichment and pose prediction across diverse target classes; widely adopted in pharmaceutical structure-based drug design (J. Cheminformatics, 915+ stars, actively maintained)

Graph neural network operating entirely at the atomic level for protein-ligand conformational ensemble prediction and docking, generating diverse solutions through rapid stochastic denoising to model conformational heterogeneity (Baker Lab, bioRxiv 2025)

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)