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Weian Mao

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Approach:deep learning· 2 Assay:protein structure· 2 Research Focus:protein structure prediction· 2 Approach:diffusion model· 1 Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 1 Organism:E. coli· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Organism:human· 1

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BoltzGen: Toward Universal Binder Design

Hannes Stark, Felix Faltings, MinGyu Choi, Yuxin Xie, Eunsu Hur, Timothy J. O’Donnell, Anton Bushuiev, Talip Uçar, Saro Passaro, Weian Mao, Mateo Reveiz, Roman Bushuiev, Tally Portnoi, Tomáš Pluskal, Josef Šivic, , Tommi Jaakkola

An all-atom diffusion model unifying biomolecular structure prediction and sequence-structure generation designs experimentally validated nanobodies, mini-proteins, and linear or cyclic peptides across 26 diverse targets.

bioRxiv · Nov 20, 2025 · PreprintBioengineering✦ In-depth digest

Modeling Protein Structure Using Geometric Vector Field Networks

Weian Mao, Muzhi Zhu, Hao Chen, Chunhua Shen

This paper introduces a novel vector field network for protein structure modeling, achieving improved performance over existing methods in inverse folding tasks.

bioRxiv · May 7, 2023 · PreprintSystems Biology