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New MCTH framework uses AI for biomolecular sequence-structure co-design

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Researchers have developed a new framework called MCTH (Monte Carlo Tree Hallucination) for designing biomolecular sequences and structures. This method uses Monte Carlo Tree Search to explore potential design trajectories, incorporating confidence from pretrained models and biophysical constraints. Experiments across various biomolecular interactions, including protein-RNA and protein-DNA, show that MCTH's adaptive search outperforms simpler sampling strategies, with evaluations on AlphaFold3 and Chai-1 demonstrating its effectiveness beyond the search-time models. AI

IMPACT This framework could accelerate the design of novel therapeutics and synthetic biology applications by improving the efficiency of biomolecular sequence-structure co-design.

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  1. arXiv cs.AI TIER_1 English(EN) · Xuefeng Liu, Mingxuan Cao, Xiao Luo, Songhao Jiang, Tobin Sosnick, Jinbo Xu, Louis Maher, Rick Stevens ·

    Leveraging generative hallucination and biophysics-informed modeling for unified biomolecular sequence-structure co-design

    arXiv:2608.17381v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Biomolecular design underpins applications from molecular recognition to therapeutics and synthetic biology, yet de novo interaction design remains challenging-especially for DNA/RNA, underexplored non-protein modalities with scar…

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