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What seemed like an intractable problem is now possible: To design proteins with a specified nonlinear mechanical response, capturing complex folding and unfolding mechanisms in singe and few-shot computations. We present ForceGen, an end-to-end algorithm for de novo protein generation based on nonlinear mechanical unfolding responses. Rooted in the...

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The Guy2 年前

I can imagine someone setting out with a dictionary of all the major cancer causing mutations to find the protein changes they lead to then reverse engineering a "fixer" protein that either marks those cells for destruction or repairs the malfunctioning protein.

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Ella Marushchenko2 年前

@tamjeeds Congratulations on this fascinating breakthrough! Could ForceGen fast-track the development of self-repairing biomaterials?

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Sohm Music2 年前

This absolutely has to take the cake, best discovery of the year so far!

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Markus Rauhalahti2 年前

Beautiful work! Huge fan of your/group's curiosity towards frameworks and methods, from category theory to the recent LLM explorations. Looking forward to reading this properly and testing it out, thanks for sharing the code and weights!

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Markus J. Buehler2 年前

Thank you @MRauhalahti !

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Gioele Zardini2 年前

This is amazing Markus, looking forward to discovering more!

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Brian Timko Laboratory2 年前

@KaplanLab_Tufts Very cool!

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Jugal2 年前

Congratulations!!

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Jason Liu2 年前

Congrats! This looks super cool! Did you mean 'single' in "...mechanisms in singe and few-shot computations..." (paragraph 1)?

Ⓜⓐⓡⓖⓘⓝ ⓒⓐⓛⓛ 的头像
Ⓜⓐⓡⓖⓘⓝ ⓒⓐⓛⓛ2 年前

Nice work, similar to AFM.

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