bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Deep generative modeling of temperature-dependent structural ensembles of proteins
March 2025 • Giacomo Janson, Alexander Jussupow, Michael Feig
ABSTRACT Deep learning has revolutionized protein structure prediction, but capturing conformational ensembles and structural variability remains an open challenge. While molecular dynamics (MD) is the foundation method for simulating biomolecular dynamics, it is computationally expensive. Recently, deep learning models trained on MD have made progress in generating structural ensembles at reduced cost. However, they remain limited in modeling atomistic details and, crucially, incorporating the effect of environme…