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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2025

A generalized and efficient approach for complete mRNA design improves translation, stability and specificity.

Aidan T Riley, McKayla Vlasity, Joey Zhuoying Huang, Wyatt M Becicka, Wilson W Wong, Mark W Grinstaff, Alexander A Green

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors.

Aidan T RileyDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-7867-2585
McKayla VlasityDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-3749-9437
Joey Zhuoying HuangDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.
Wyatt M BecickaDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0009-0008-6692-2741
Wilson W WongDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8394-889X
Mark W GrinstaffDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5453-3668
Alexander A GreenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Boston University, Boston, MA 02215, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2058-1204

Funding

Programming cellular behavior by mechanical forcesR01EB037112 · NIBIB · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI Julien Berro, Alexander Arthur Green · 2024 to 2026
$7.2M
TRAINING PROGRAM IN QUANTITATIVE BIOLOGY AND PHYSIOLOGYT32GM008764 · NIGMS · BOSTON UNIVERSITY (CHARLES RIVER CAMPUS) · PI WHITE, JOHN A. · 2001 to 2021
$5.9M
NIBIB NIH HHS R01 EB037112NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM008764
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

End-to-end, machine-learning based design of mRNA molecules offers a powerful means to tailor their properties for specific tasks. mRNA expression level, immunogenicity, tissue specificity, stability, and localization, among others strongly depend on sequence, thus providing a rich set of properties amenable to optimization. Despite this potential, the various components of mRNA are governed by distinct grammatical and functional rules that hinder the development of a unified algorithmic approach for complete mRNA design. While machine learning and generative AI techniques demonstrate substantial benefits for individual sequence design tasks, adapting these tools to new domains or out-of-distribution tasks remains challenging. In this work, we describe a simple and powerful alteration to integrated gradients (

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