IgCraft: A versatile sequence generation framework for antibody discovery and engineering

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Main Authors: Greenig, Matthew, Zhao, Haowen, Radenkovic, Vladimir, Ramon, Aubin, Sormanni, Pietro
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Published: 2025
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author Greenig, Matthew
Zhao, Haowen
Radenkovic, Vladimir
Ramon, Aubin
Sormanni, Pietro
author_facet Greenig, Matthew
Zhao, Haowen
Radenkovic, Vladimir
Ramon, Aubin
Sormanni, Pietro
contents Designing antibody sequences to better resemble those observed in natural human repertoires is a key challenge in biologics development. We introduce IgCraft: a multi-purpose model for paired human antibody sequence generation, built on Bayesian Flow Networks. IgCraft presents one of the first unified generative modeling frameworks capable of addressing multiple antibody sequence design tasks with a single model, including unconditional sampling, sequence inpainting, inverse folding, and CDR motif scaffolding. Our approach achieves competitive results across the full spectrum of these tasks while constraining generation to the space of human antibody sequences, exhibiting particular strengths in CDR motif scaffolding (grafting) where we achieve state-of-the-art performance in terms of humanness and preservation of structural properties. By integrating previously separate tasks into a single scalable generative model, IgCraft provides a versatile platform for sampling human antibody sequences under a variety of contexts relevant to antibody discovery and engineering. Model code and weights are publicly available at https://github.com/mgreenig/IgCraft.
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spellingShingle IgCraft: A versatile sequence generation framework for antibody discovery and engineering
Greenig, Matthew
Zhao, Haowen
Radenkovic, Vladimir
Ramon, Aubin
Sormanni, Pietro
Biomolecules
Machine Learning
Quantitative Methods
Designing antibody sequences to better resemble those observed in natural human repertoires is a key challenge in biologics development. We introduce IgCraft: a multi-purpose model for paired human antibody sequence generation, built on Bayesian Flow Networks. IgCraft presents one of the first unified generative modeling frameworks capable of addressing multiple antibody sequence design tasks with a single model, including unconditional sampling, sequence inpainting, inverse folding, and CDR motif scaffolding. Our approach achieves competitive results across the full spectrum of these tasks while constraining generation to the space of human antibody sequences, exhibiting particular strengths in CDR motif scaffolding (grafting) where we achieve state-of-the-art performance in terms of humanness and preservation of structural properties. By integrating previously separate tasks into a single scalable generative model, IgCraft provides a versatile platform for sampling human antibody sequences under a variety of contexts relevant to antibody discovery and engineering. Model code and weights are publicly available at https://github.com/mgreenig/IgCraft.
title IgCraft: A versatile sequence generation framework for antibody discovery and engineering
topic Biomolecules
Machine Learning
Quantitative Methods
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.19821