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Latent-based Directed Evolution accelerated by Gradient Ascent for Protein Sequence Design
Nhat Khang Ngo, Thanh V. T. Tran, Viet Thanh Duy Nguyen, Truong Son Hy
This paper introduces LDE, a variational autoencoder-based method for protein sequence design that improves efficiency by prioritizing high-fitness mutants in latent space, outperforming baselines on eight tasks.
DOI 10.1101/2024.04.13.589381