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Canopy model advances metabolic engineering with heterogeneous graph foundation

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Researchers have introduced Canopy, a novel heterogeneous graph foundation model designed for metabolic engineering. This model integrates diverse data sources, including genes, proteins, metabolites, and experimental results, into a unified knowledge graph. Canopy utilizes domain-specific foundation models like ESM-2 for protein sequences and MoLFormer for chemical structures to create multi-modal representations. When applied to fermentation titer prediction, Canopy embeddings significantly outperform traditional tabular machine learning approaches. AI

IMPACT This model could accelerate the design of microbial strains for chemical production by leveraging complex biological relationships.

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Jake Bowden, Laurence Legon, Satnam Surae ·

    Canopy: A Heterograph Foundation Model for Metabolic Engineering

    arXiv:2607.06224v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Designing microbial strains that produce high-value chemicals at commercially viable titers remains a central challenge in metabolic engineering. Existing computational approaches either rely on stoichiometric constraint-based model…

  2. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Satnam Surae ·

    Canopy: A Heterograph Foundation Model for Metabolic Engineering

    Designing microbial strains that produce high-value chemicals at commercially viable titers remains a central challenge in metabolic engineering. Existing computational approaches either rely on stoichiometric constraint-based models that cannot learn from experimental data, or a…

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