Accelerating Virtual Directed Evolution of Proteins via Reinforcement Learning
Tianyu Mi, Yuxiang Wang, Jingyu Zhao, Wanze Wang, Yunhao Shen, Nan Xiao, Ligong Chen, Guo‐Qiang Chen, Shuyi Zhang, Wenbin Zhang, Haipeng Gong
This study introduces RelaVDEP, a virtual directed evolution pipeline using reinforcement learning to accelerate protein mutation discovery, showing improved catalytic activity in PETase through novel mutations.
bioRxiv · Jun 25, 2025 · PreprintBioinformatics