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Learning the All-Atom Equilibrium Distribution of Biomolecular Interactions at Scale

Wang, Y.; Xu, Y.; Li, W.; Yu, H.; Tan, W.; Li, S.; Huang, Q.; Chen, N.; Wu, X.; Wu, Q.; Liu, K.

2026-03-13 bioinformatics
10.64898/2026.03.10.710952 bioRxiv
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Biomolecular functions are governed by dynamic conformational ensembles rather than static structures. While models like AlphaFold have revolutionized static structure prediction, accurately capturing the equilibrium distribution of all-atom biomolecular interactions remains a significant challenge due to the high computational cost of molecular dynamics (MD). We present AnewSampling, a transferable generative foundation framework designed for the high-fidelity sampling of all-atom equilibrium distributions, which is the first model to faithfully reproduce MD at the all-atom level. It uses a novel quotient-space generative framework to ensure mathematical consistency and leverages the largest self-curated database of protein-ligand trajectories to date, with over 15 million conformations. Statistically, AnewSampling consistently outperforms all prior generative methods on the ATLAS monomer benchmark, and the all-atom capabilities of AnewSampling enable close statistical alignment with ground-truth MD for evaluating atomic biomolecular interactions in protein-ligand dynamics. Furthermore, AnewSampling successfully recovers coupled ligand and side-chain motions in CDK2 systems, overcoming a major sampling hurdle inherent to conventional MD. AnewSampling enables rapid exploration of conformational landscapes prior to intensive simulations, elucidating fundamental biophysical mechanisms and accelerating the broader design of functional biomolecules.

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