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ArticleNature reviews bioengineering2024

Diffusion models in bioinformatics and computational biology.

Zhiye Guo, Jian Liu, Yanli Wang, Mengrui Chen, Duolin Wang, Dong Xu, Jianlin Cheng

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Article in Nature reviews bioengineering, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 67 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

67 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Artificial intelligence catalyzes antimicrobial peptide design.Synthetic and systems biotechnology · 2027
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  3. scCADI: Cell-Aware Diffusion Model for Single-Cell RNA-seq Imputation.Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences · 2026
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  6. DiTSim: A Diffusion-Transformers Based Single-Cell ATAC-seq Data Simulator.Interdisciplinary sciences, computational life sciences · 2026
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  14. Protein foundation models: a comprehensive survey.Science China. Life sciences · 2026
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  18. Multidrug-ResistantMicroorganisms · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Zhiye GuoDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5598-4834
Jian LiuDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Yanli WangDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Mengrui ChenDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Duolin WangDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Dong XuDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.
Jianlin ChengDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0305-2853

Funding

Integrated Prediction of Protein Struture at 1D, 2D and 3D LevelsR01GM093123 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI CHENG, JIANLIN · 2010 to 2023
$3.8M
Multi-view self-supervised deep learning for biological sequences and beyondR35GM126985 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA · PI DONG XU · 2018 to 2026
$3.8M
Deep learning methods for automated and accurate reconstruction of protein structures from cryo-EM image dataR01GM146340 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI CHENG, JIANLIN · 2022 to 2025
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM093123NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM146340NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM126985
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Denoising diffusion models embody a type of generative artificial intelligence that can be applied in computer vision, natural language processing and bioinformatics. In this Review, we introduce the key concepts and theoretical foundations of three diffusion modelling frameworks (denoising diffusion probabilistic models, noise-conditioned scoring networks and score stochastic differential equations). We then explore their applications in bioinformatics and computational biology, including protein design and generation, drug and small-molecule design, protein-ligand interaction modelling, cryo-electron microscopy image data analysis and single-cell data analysis. Finally, we highlight open-source diffusion model tools and consider the future applications of diffusion models in bioinformatics.

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PMID38576453
PMCPMC10994218

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