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Ismael Castañón

University of StavangerORCID 0009-0005-3865-6392Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Bioengineering· 1 Bioinformatics· 1

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Research Focus:drug response / drug discovery· 2 Approach:deep learning· 1 Approach:diffusion model· 1 Assay:proteomics· 1 Approach:variational autoencoder· 1

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Alessandro PiniiD· 1 shared César de la Fuente‐NúñeziD· 1 shared Chiara FalcianiiD· 1 shared Fangping WaniD· 1 shared

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2026-2026 · peak 2/yr

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BioengineeringbioRxivPreprintJul 25, 2026

Targeting Ligand Shape While Preserving a Warhead through Guided Diffusion and Adaptive Staged Growth

Ismael Castañón

This paper improves molecular growth models by using shape guidance and adaptive growth to connect fragments while preserving a warhead.

DOI 10.64898/2026.07.21.739744

deep learningdiffusion model

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintMay 29, 2026

A Conditional Variational Autoencoder with QSAR-Guided Surrogate-Weighted Fine-Tuning and Cross-Entropy Optimization for Targeted Antimicrobial Peptide Generation

Ismael Castañón, Fangping Wan, César de la Fuente‐Núñez…·Chiara Falciani

This paper introduces a conditional variational autoencoder for antimicrobial peptide generation, combining QSAR data and cross-entropy optimization to overcome limitations in generative models.

DOI 10.64898/2026.04.28.721185

proteomicsvariational autoencoder

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