A public land-grant research university in Indiana with research spanning engineering, computing, structural biology, and drug discovery.
Kihara Lab / Purdue University / Carnegie Mellon University / National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology
Released August 25, 2026
Protein language model that supervises embedding geometry with inter-residue contacts, so representation distance tracks physical distance.
Purdue University / Vanderbilt University / Freie Universität Berlin
Released July 29, 2026
Few-step generative model for de novo protein backbone design, extending MeanFlow to the SE(3) Lie-group geometry of residue frames.
Protein conformational ensemble generator and coarse-grained force field in one normalizing flow. Samples faster than diffusion-based baselines.
Molecular representation learning from surface point clouds, 3D graphs, and fragment tokens. Cuts ESOL RMSE to 0.740 under scaffold splitting.
Structure-based drug design language model fusing protein structural and evolutionary encoders with SAFE fragment tokens for hit-to-lead generation.
Cryo-EM ligand modeling pipeline that detects bound ligand densities in a map, then reconstructs their atomic structures with a diffusion model.
Multimodal model that designs small molecules from transcriptomic and cell-imaging perturbation phenotypes with a rectified flow transformer.
Protein language model that emulates molecular dynamics, generating equilibrium conformational ensembles and multi-timescale dynamic trajectories.
Sequence-based multitask model predicting covalently ligandable cysteines and reversible ligand-binding residues across the human proteome.
Carnegie Mellon University / Purdue University
Released May 27, 2025
Protein structure retrieval model aligning 3D structures with functional text via contrastive learning, for zero-shot search of PDB and cryo-EM maps.
End-to-end transformer reading fluorescence microscopy video to return single-molecule trajectories with Hurst exponents and diffusion coefficients.
Southwest Jiaotong University / Purdue University / University at Albany, State University of New York / University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / Chengdu University of Information Technology
Released February 5, 2025
Medical image segmentation model that replaces MedSAM's manual box prompts with a diffusion prompt encoder and labels each mask by class.
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill / University of Washington / Purdue University
Released January 14, 2025
Cryo-EM reconstruction with neural radiance fields in Euclidean 3D space, separating conformational motion from compositional assembly states.
Hi-C foundation model pretrained on 118 million contact submatrices, fine-tuned for loop detection, resolution enhancement and epigenomic prediction.
Protein conformational ensemble generation guided by experimental observables, steering a pretrained diffusion sampler toward Boltzmann statistics.