The Human Bindome: A Proteome-scale Atlas of Designed Binder Candidates
Wenckstern, J.; Diaz-Rovira, A. M.; Kuhn, J.; Ban, A.; Hamdani, R.; Pruano-Milla, R.; Elizarova, E.; Georgeon, S.; Thompson, K.; Hinterndorfer, M.; Sankar, D. S.; Dunnebacke, M.; Desscan, D.; Nair, S.; Afonso, M. Q. L.; Fleming, J.; Velankar, S.; Ablasser, A.; Picotti, P.; Winter, G.; Taipale, M.; Correia, B. E.
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Affinity reagents such as antibodies are indispensable for interrogating proteins biological function. Yet they are costly and frequently unreliable, with unknown sequences, posing challenges to reproducible experimental research. Deep learning-based protein design can now in silico generate affinity reagents achieving reliable experimental success rates, but has remained largely confined to specialist laboratories. Here we present the Human Bindome, a proteome-scale atlas of high-confidence in silico protein binder candidates. By embedding the experimentally benchmarked BindCraft method in an accelerated, parallelized framework with automated domain-level target selection, we generated 306,146 binder candidates covering 8,296 human proteins (40.9% of the full proteome). Every candidate carries a defined sequence, a predicted binder-target structure model, and in silico confidence metrics. We characterize proteome-wide coverage and show that binder epitopes frequently overlap functional sites. This positions the Bindome as a resource of genetically encodable perturbagens for site-specific, modular control of protein function. The Bindome is freely available through a web interface (https://bindome.epfl.ch), with agentic, natural-language querying and as data splits for machine-learning model development. We anticipate that the Bindome will be valuable for the scientific community by providing affinity and perturbation reagents with broad applications in dissecting biological mechanisms as well as in drug and target discovery.
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