BAnG: Bidirectional Anchored Generation for Conditional RNA Design

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Hauptverfasser: Klypa, Roman, Bietti, Alberto, Grudinin, Sergei
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author Klypa, Roman
Bietti, Alberto
Grudinin, Sergei
author_facet Klypa, Roman
Bietti, Alberto
Grudinin, Sergei
contents Designing RNA molecules that interact with specific proteins is a critical challenge in experimental and computational biology. Existing computational approaches require a substantial amount of previously known interacting RNA sequences for each specific protein or a detailed knowledge of RNA structure, restricting their utility in practice. To address this limitation, we develop RNA-BAnG, a deep learning-based model designed to generate RNA sequences for protein interactions without these requirements. Central to our approach is a novel generative method, Bidirectional Anchored Generation (BAnG), which leverages the observation that protein-binding RNA sequences often contain functional binding motifs embedded within broader sequence contexts. We first validate our method on generic synthetic tasks involving similar localized motifs to those appearing in RNAs, demonstrating its benefits over existing generative approaches. We then evaluate our model on biological sequences, showing its effectiveness for conditional RNA sequence design given a binding protein.
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spellingShingle BAnG: Bidirectional Anchored Generation for Conditional RNA Design
Klypa, Roman
Bietti, Alberto
Grudinin, Sergei
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Biomolecules
Designing RNA molecules that interact with specific proteins is a critical challenge in experimental and computational biology. Existing computational approaches require a substantial amount of previously known interacting RNA sequences for each specific protein or a detailed knowledge of RNA structure, restricting their utility in practice. To address this limitation, we develop RNA-BAnG, a deep learning-based model designed to generate RNA sequences for protein interactions without these requirements. Central to our approach is a novel generative method, Bidirectional Anchored Generation (BAnG), which leverages the observation that protein-binding RNA sequences often contain functional binding motifs embedded within broader sequence contexts. We first validate our method on generic synthetic tasks involving similar localized motifs to those appearing in RNAs, demonstrating its benefits over existing generative approaches. We then evaluate our model on biological sequences, showing its effectiveness for conditional RNA sequence design given a binding protein.
title BAnG: Bidirectional Anchored Generation for Conditional RNA Design
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
Biomolecules
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.21274