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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2025

JAX-RNAfold: scalable differentiable folding.

Ryan K Krueger, Max Ward

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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  1. Gradient-based optimization for mRNA sequence design.Bioinformatics (Oxford, England) · 2026
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  3. Physics-guided design of intrinsically disordered proteins.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026
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2 authors.

Ryan K KruegerSchool of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, United States.ORCID 0000-0001-6856-0248
Max WardDepartment of Computer Science and Software Engineering, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.ORCID 0000-0001-9114-7339

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

summaryDifferentiable folding is an emerging paradigm for RNA design in which a probabilistic sequence representation is optimized via gradient descent. However, given the significant memory overhead of differentiating the expected partition function over all RNA sequences, the existing proof-of-concept algorithm only scales to ≤50 nucleotides. We present JAX-RNAfold, an open-source software package for our drastically improved differentiable folding algorithm that scales to 1,250 nucleotides on a single GPU. Our software permits the natural inclusion of differentiable folding as a module in larger deep learning pipelines, as well as complex RNA design procedures such as mRNA design with flexible objective functions. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: JAX-RNAfold is hosted on GitHub (https://github.com/rkruegs123/jax-rnafold) and can be installed locally as a Python package. All source code is also archived on Zenodo (https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.15003072).

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Computational BiologyRNARNA FoldingSequence Analysis, RNASoftwareAlgorithmsNucleic Acid ConformationRNA

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PMID40279486
PMCPMC12064173

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