Structural evolution (ESM-IF1 complex)

structural evolution ESM-IF1 complex evolution

Peer-reviewed Prospective flag Direct antibody flag

Summary card

ПолеЗначение
Год / version2024 / NR
Last verified2026-08-13
Что генерируетRanked sequence mutations preserving complex structure
ФорматыProtein complexes and antibody–antigen complexes
De novo или optimizationOptimizes existing complex
DOI10.1126/science.adk8946
Paperhttps://doi.org/10.1126/science.adk8946
GitHub / repohttps://github.com/varun-shanker/structural-evolution
Service / docsNR
ЛицензияMIT
Доступность / commercial-useCode/scripts

Задача и generated object

Used in these tasks: Предложение single mutations, Affinity maturation, Structure-aware дизайн antibody sequence

Part of these workflows: Zero-shot mutation proposal

ПолеЗначение
Required inputParent complex structure/backbone
ConditioningComplex geometry; selected mutable positions
FixedNR
EditableNR
GeneratedRanked sequence mutations preserving complex structure
Single mutationsYes
Combinatorial mutationsLimited/derived combinations; primary strength is ranked substitutions
Multi-objectiveNo explicit multi-objective loop

Architecture and operating principle

Author-reported (matrix)
ПолеЗначение
Base architectureNR
Model type6 Mutation generator / optimization workflow
RepresentationNR
Generation unitRanked sequence mutations preserving complex structure
ConditioningComplex geometry; selected mutable positions
OutputRanked sequence mutations preserving complex structure
SamplingNR
Internal scorerStructure-conditioned sequence likelihood
Structure generationNo structure prediction; uses supplied complex backbone

Input representation

NR

ПолеЗначение
Node featuresNR
Edge / pair featuresNR

Encoder и decoder

NR

ПолеЗначение
EncoderNR
DecoderNR

Latent or generative state

NR

Conditioning mechanism

Complex geometry; selected mutable positions

Generation mechanism

Inverse-folding likelihood on complete complex backbone to rank substitutions

Sampling: NR

Training objectives

NR

Losses: NR

Mathematical details: NR

Integrated evaluation

Structure-conditioned sequence likelihood

Architectural limitations

Uses these architecture components: Inverse folding, Zero-shot mutation scoring

Generator versus evaluation

ComponentRoleArchitecture classIntegrated or externalRequired or optionalInfluences generation or post hocRuntime included or excluded
ESM-IF1 conditional mutation proposalprimary_generatorInverse-folding likelihood on complete complex backbone to rank substitutionsintegratedrequiredgenerationincluded
Structure-conditioned sequence likelihoodintegrated_scorerNRintegratedoptionalpost_hocunknown
Complex-quality validation and functional assaysmandatory_external_dependencyNRexternalrequiredpost_hocexcluded
Experimental binding/function assaysexperimental_validationNRexternalrequiredpost_hocexcluded

Training data и biases

ПолеЗначение
Training dataNR
PreprocessingNR
Negative examplesNR
Fine-tuningNR
Label requirementsNR
Training hardwareNR
Training timeNR

Inference hardware и runtime

ПолеЗначение
Candidate countNR
Batch sizeNR
Generation stepsNR
RecyclesNR
SizeNR
Reported runtimeNR
Runtime boundaryNR
CPUNR
GPUNR
VRAMNR
RAMNR
DiskNR
DatabasesNR

Experimental evidence

ПолеЗначение
Evidence class4 prospective functional validation
RetrospectiveMultiple protein/antibody systems; exact count by system: paper-level extraction required
Prospective bindingImproved antibody potency/resilience to viral escape reported
Prospective functionImproved antibody potency/resilience to viral escape reported
DevelopabilityNR
Tested design countMultiple protein/antibody systems; exact count by system: paper-level extraction required
Success criterionImproved antibody potency/resilience to viral escape reported
Independent validationNR
SummaryImproved antibody potency/resilience to viral escape reported

Limitations and failure modes

Deployment: Limited internal pilot

Reproducibility, license, commercial use

ПолеЗначение
Repohttps://github.com/varun-shanker/structural-evolution
LicenseMIT
Commercial-use statusCode/scripts

Alternative tools: NR

Complementary: NR

Related: NR

Not directly comparable with

EVOLVEpro, FrameDiff, Makowski et al. affinity–specificity co-optimization, RFantibody, RFdiffusion, RFdiffusion All-Atom (RFdiffusionAA), tFold System
Сравнение допустимо только внутри совместимых категорий. Runtime и quality AntiFold vs RFantibody нельзя читать как одну шкалу: разные starting points и generated objects.

Depends on these external modules

NR

NR

Primary paper и полный список источников

Unsupervised evolution of protein and antibody complexes with a structure-informed language model

Source matrix: landscape xlsx, last verified 2026-08-13.

Детальный source-grounded разбор

sources identified Последняя сверка источников: 2026-08-27. Ниже — каркас обязательных разделов, заполненный из канонического YAML инструмента. Это не замена чтения primary paper / SI / model files. Поля без первоисточника помечены NR или MATRIX.

1. Что именно делает инструмент

[MATRIX]Вход: Parent complex structure/backbone

[MATRIX]Generated object: Ranked sequence mutations preserving complex structure

[MATRIX]Фиксируется: NR. Изменяется: NR.

[MATRIX]De novo или parent-based: Optimizes existing complex.

2. Архитектура в одном абзаце

[MATRIX]Inverse-folding likelihood on complete complex backbone to rank substitutions

4. Математическая модель

NRТочные уравнения, losses и sampling solver будут внесены после чтения paper/code. Не подставляйте родовой UCB/transformer/diffusion, если он не подтверждён для этого инструмента.

Поля NR: conditional probability, update equations, sampling algorithm

5. Физическое устройство состояния

[MATRIX]Seed generated state / output: Ranked sequence mutations preserving complex structure. Structure generation: No structure prediction; uses supplied complex backbone.

6. Физико-химическая интерпретация

[INTERPRETATION]Координаты, frames, PLM embeddings или residue tokens не являются расчётом ΔG, электростатики или растворителя, пока это не сделано внешней energy function. Likelihood / pLDDT / docking score ≠ экспериментальный binding.

7. Training

[MATRIX]Данные: NR. Fine-tuning: NR. Negative examples: NR.

8. Inference

[MATRIX]Sampling: NR. Generation steps: NR. Runtime boundary: NR.

10. Почему, по мнению авторов, метод эффективен

[MATRIX]Author-reported summary (матрица): Improved antibody potency/resilience to viral escape reported

NRCausal support не классифицирован, пока не прочитаны ablation и experimental sections.

12. Ablation analysis

NRAblation в этом выпуске не разобрана.

13. What the model does not represent

14. Evidence and limitations

[MATRIX]Evidence class (матрица): 4 prospective functional validation. Prospective binding: Improved antibody potency/resilience to viral escape reported. Function: Improved antibody potency/resilience to viral escape reported. Developability: NR.

15. Reproducibility

NRРепозиторий: https://github.com/varun-shanker/structural-evolution. Лицензия: MIT. Commit: NR, пока страница не имеет отдельного analysis YAML.

Модульная схема

МодульКласс моделиВходВыходОбучается или frozenGenerator или evaluator
ESM-IF1 conditional mutation proposalInverse-folding likelihood on complete complex backbone to rank substitutionsNRNRNRprimary_generator
Structure-conditioned sequence likelihoodNRNRNRNRintegrated_scorer
Complex-quality validation and functional assaysNRNRNRNRmandatory_external_dependency
Experimental binding/function assaysNRNRNRNRexperimental_validation

Generator versus evaluator

КомпонентРольIntegrated или externalRequired или optionalВлияет на generation или только ранжирует после
ESM-IF1 conditional mutation proposalprimary_generatorintegratedrequiredgeneration
Structure-conditioned sequence likelihoodintegrated_scorerintegratedoptionalpost_hoc
Complex-quality validation and functional assaysmandatory_external_dependencyexternalrequiredpost_hoc
Experimental binding/function assaysexperimental_validationexternalrequiredpost_hoc

Claim–evidence matrix

УтверждениеПредполагаемый механизмТип evidenceДатасет / экспериментComparatorМетрика / результатИсточникОговорка
Improved antibody potency/resilience to viral escape reportedInverse-folding likelihood on complete complex backbone to rank substitutions5. prospective functional validationMultiple protein/antibody systems; exact count by system: paper-level extraction requiredNRImproved antibody potency/resilience to viral escape reported[MATRIX] landscape matrix 2026-08-13Не читать как полный разбор primary paper.