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Rigidity-Aware Geometric Pretraining for Protein Design and Conformational Ensembles

arXiv – CS AI|Zhanghan Ni, Yanjing Li, Zeju Qiu, Bernhard Sch\"olkopf, Hongyu Guo, Weiyang Liu, Shengchao Liu|March 4, 2026 at 05:00 AM|1 views

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Researchers introduce RigidSSL, a new geometric pretraining framework for protein design that improves designability by up to 43% and enhances success rates in protein generation tasks. The two-phase approach combines geometric learning from 432K protein structures with molecular dynamics refinement to better capture protein conformational dynamics.

Key Takeaways

→RigidSSL framework addresses limitations in current protein design models by jointly learning geometry and design tasks through pretraining.
→The approach uses a two-phase training system with 432K AlphaFold structures and 1.3K molecular dynamics trajectories.
→Results show up to 43% improvement in designability and 5.8% better success rate in zero-shot motif scaffolding.
→The framework employs bi-directional, rigidity-aware flow matching to optimize both translational and rotational protein dynamics.
→RigidSSL-MD variant captures more biophysically realistic conformational ensembles in G protein-coupled receptor modeling.

#protein-design #machine-learning #alphafold #molecular-dynamics #generative-models #biotechnology #research #pretraining

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