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Alp Tartici, Mihajlo Stojkovic, Anru Tian, Michael C. Jewett + 2 more
Protein engineering has important implications in the bioeconomy, enabling applications in materials, medicine, and energy. A key challenge is designing protein sequences that have a specific form and function. Protein inverse folding seeks to address this challenge by identifying amino acid sequences compatible with a…
Odin Zhang, Jiaqi Wang, Tuscan Rock Thompson, Ziyi You + 3 more
Biomolecular interactions, including protein–protein interactions, protein–nucleic acid recognition, and protein–small molecule binding, underlie a wide range of biological processes and therapeutic mechanisms. Although recent de novo design methods can generate candidate binders for diverse molecular targets…
Justina Stark, Christophe Godin
Biological transport networks range from tree-like to highly reticulated architectures, which have been proposed to reflect different balances between viscous dissipation and metabolic cost. This balance cannot currently be inferred from structure: available descriptors either discard edge width entirely or preserve it…
William JF Rieger, Sebastian Häussermann, Luca Herrmann, Zecheng Li + 8 more
Enzymes frequently exhibit promiscuous activity beyond their native roles, providing starting-points for new functions. Finding these promiscuous enzymes, especially for non-native chemical transformations, is challenging but highly valuable, as they promise novel, sustainable solutions for chemistry and biotechnology.…
Atif Khan, Sruti Chandramouli, Hiren M. Joshi
The crystal violet (CV) microtiter plate assay is widely used to compare microbial biofilm formation because it is inexpensive, simple, and readily adapted to 96-well formats. Its high-throughput design enables multiple strains, growth conditions, and treatments to be tested in parallel, but increasing experimental…
Naveena S. Ujagar, Suresh Poudel, Shubh Saraswat, Suhas Sureshchandra + 18 more
Based on in vitro and animal studies, Th17 cells are classified as pathogenic (pTh17) or non-pathogenic (nTh17), but the inability to identify these subsets in primary human samples limits translation. We developed a single-cell ELISA to enrich human Th17s, enabling transcriptomic and flow-cytometric classification.…
Hao Ding, Nannan Wu, Tianyi Qiu
DNA foundation models such as Evo2 7B adopt hybrid Hyena/attention architectures (Striped-Hyena2) whose single-stream autoregressive decoding is bounded by weight bandwidth at ∼45 tok/s. Speculative decoding on such hybrids faces a systems problem that prior SSM work solves only partially: after a draft is verified…
Xuebin Feng, Emma R. Master
Sequence similarity networks (SSNs) are graphical representations of sequence relationship frequently used for exploring protein sequence space. Conventional SSN workflows typically use BLAST to calculate sequence similarities and rely on external visualization tools to generate the final networks. Consequently, raw…
Fabio Cumbo, Kabir Dhillon, M. Hassan Najafi, Sercan Aygun + 1 more
The exponential growth of genomic databases necessitates alignment-free methods for comparing genomes. While MinHash-based tools have revolutionized this field by efficiently estimating the Average Nucleotide Identity based on k-mer sets, they inherently discard structural genomic information. We introduce HyperSketch…
Peter F. Pelz, Tobias Meck
For nearly a century, the physical origin of metabolic scaling has remained unresolved: metabolism is proportional to body mass in small organisms but follows Kleiber’s three-quarter-power law in larger animals. We derive both regimes from the Metabolic Holon (MH), a locally optimized capillary–tissue oxygen-supply…