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ArticleNucleic acids research2025

Integrating experimental feedback improves generative models for biological sequences.

Francesco Calvanese, Giovanni Peinetti, Polina Pavlinova, Philippe Nghe, Martin Weigt

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 authors.

Francesco CalvaneseSorbonne Université, CNRS, Department of Computational, Quantitative and Synthetic Biology-CQSB, 75005 Paris, France.
Giovanni PeinettiSorbonne Université, CNRS, Department of Computational, Quantitative and Synthetic Biology-CQSB, 75005 Paris, France.
Polina PavlinovaLaboratoire de Biophysique et Evolution, UMR CNRS-ESPCI 8231 Chimie Biologie Innovation, PSL University, 75005 Paris, France.
Philippe NgheLaboratoire de Biophysique et Evolution, UMR CNRS-ESPCI 8231 Chimie Biologie Innovation, PSL University, 75005 Paris, France.
Martin WeigtSorbonne Université, CNRS, Department of Computational, Quantitative and Synthetic Biology-CQSB, 75005 Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-0492-3684

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EU Horizon 2020 101002075France 2030 PEPR Origins ANR-22-EXOR-0013
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Generative probabilistic models have shown promise in designing artificial RNA and protein sequences but often suffer from high rates of false positives, where sequences predicted as functional fail experimental validation. To address this critical limitation, we explore the impact of reintegrating experimental feedback into the model design process. We propose a likelihood-based reintegration scheme, which we test through extensive computational experiments on both RNA and protein datasets, as well as through wet-lab experiments on the self-splicing ribozyme from the Group I intron RNA family where our approach demonstrates particular efficacy. We show that integrating recent experimental data enhances the model's capacity of generating functional sequences (e.g. from 6.7% to 63.7% of active designs at 45 mutations). This feedback-driven approach thus provides a significant improvement in the design of biomolecular sequences by directly tackling the false-positive challenge.

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RNA, CatalyticComputational BiologyIntronsModels, StatisticalMutationRNA, Catalytic

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PMID40902000
PMCPMC12407104

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