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AntiDIF: Accurate and Diverse Antibody Specific Inverse Folding with Discrete Diffusion

Branson, N.; Deane, C.

2025-07-17 immunology
10.1101/2025.07.12.664553 bioRxiv
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Inverse folding is an important step in current computational antibody design. Recently deep learning methods have made impressive progress in improving the sequence recovery of antibodies given their 3D backbone structure. However, inverse folding is often a one-to-many problem, i.e. there are multiple sequences that fold into the same structure. Previous methods have not taken into account the diversity between the predicted sequences for a given structure. Here we create AntiDIF an Antibody-specific discrete Diffusion model for Inverse Folding. Compared with stateof-the-art methods we show that AntiDIF improves diversity between predictions while keeping high sequence recovery rates. Furthermore, forward folding of the generated sequences shows good agreement with the target 3D structure.

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