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Poster

Generative Models for Graph-Based Protein Design

John Ingraham · Vikas Garg · Regina Barzilay · Tommi Jaakkola

East Exhibition Hall B, C #80

Keywords: [ Generative Models ] [ Deep Learning ] [ Attention Models ] [ Applications -> Computational Biology and Bioinformatics; Deep Learning ]


Abstract:

Engineered proteins offer the potential to solve many problems in biomedicine, energy, and materials science, but creating designs that succeed is difficult in practice. A significant aspect of this challenge is the complex coupling between protein sequence and 3D structure, with the task of finding a viable design often referred to as the inverse protein folding problem. In this work, we introduce a conditional generative model for protein sequences given 3D structures based on graph representations. Our approach efficiently captures the complex dependencies in proteins by focusing on those that are long-range in sequence but local in 3D space. This graph-based approach improves in both speed and reliability over conventional and other neural network-based approaches, and takes a step toward rapid and targeted biomolecular design with the aid of deep generative models.

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