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ReviewActa pharmacologica Sinica2025

AI-driven antibody design with generative diffusion models: current insights and future directions.

Xin-Heng He, Jun-Rui Li, James Xu, Hong Shan, Shi-Yi Shen, Si-Han Gao, H Eric Xu

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Review in Acta pharmacologica Sinica, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 17 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

17 citing papers in PubMed.

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  16. AI-based antibody design targeting recent H5N1 avian influenza strains.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2025
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Xin-Heng He *State Key Laboratory of Drug Research and CAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203, China.
Jun-Rui Li *State Key Laboratory of Drug Research and CAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203, China.
James XuCascade Pharma, Shanghai, 201318, China.
Hong ShanState Key Laboratory of Drug Research and CAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203, China.
Shi-Yi ShenState Key Laboratory of Drug Research and CAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203, China.
Si-Han GaoSchool of Pharmacy, Fudan University, Shanghai, 201203, China.
H Eric XuState Key Laboratory of Drug Research and CAS Key Laboratory of Receptor Research, Shanghai Institute of Materia Medica, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shanghai, 201203, China. eric.xu@simm.ac.cn.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Therapeutic antibodies are at the forefront of biotherapeutics, valued for their high target specificity and binding affinity. Despite their potential, optimizing antibodies for superior efficacy presents significant challenges in both monetary and time costs. Recent strides in computational and artificial intelligence (AI), especially generative diffusion models, have begun to address these challenges, offering novel approaches for antibody design. This review delves into specific diffusion-based generative methodologies tailored for antibody design tasks, de novo antibody design, and optimization of complementarity-determining region (CDR) loops, along with their evaluation metrics. We aim to provide an exhaustive overview of this burgeoning field, making it an essential resource for leveraging diffusion-based generative models in antibody design endeavors.

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Artificial IntelligenceDrug DesignAnimalsAntibodiesComplementarity Determining RegionsHumansAntibodiesComplementarity Determining RegionsantibodiesCDR optimizationde novo antibody designdiffusiongenerative modelmodel evaluation

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PMID39349764
PMCPMC11845702

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