OmegAMP: Targeted AMP Discovery through Biologically Informed Generation
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| author | Soares, Diogo Hetzel, Leon Szymczak, Paulina Torres, Marcelo Der Torossian Sommer, Johanna de la Fuente-Nunez, Cesar Theis, Fabian Günnemann, Stephan Szczurek, Ewa |
| author_facet | Soares, Diogo Hetzel, Leon Szymczak, Paulina Torres, Marcelo Der Torossian Sommer, Johanna de la Fuente-Nunez, Cesar Theis, Fabian Günnemann, Stephan Szczurek, Ewa |
| contents | Deep learning-based antimicrobial peptide (AMP) discovery faces critical challenges such as limited controllability, lack of representations that efficiently model antimicrobial properties, and low experimental hit rates. To address these challenges, we introduce OmegAMP, a framework designed for reliable AMP generation with increased controllability. Its diffusion-based generative model leverages a novel conditioning mechanism to achieve fine-grained control over desired physicochemical properties and to direct generation towards specific activity profiles, including species-specific effectiveness. This is further enhanced by a biologically informed encoding space that significantly improves overall generative performance. Complementing these generative capabilities, OmegAMP leverages a novel synthetic data augmentation strategy to train classifiers for AMP filtering, drastically reducing false positive rates and thereby increasing the likelihood of experimental success. Our in silico experiments demonstrate that OmegAMP delivers state-of-the-art performance across key stages of the AMP discovery pipeline, enabling us to achieve an unprecedented success rate in wet lab experiments. We tested 25 candidate peptides, 24 of them (96%) demonstrated antimicrobial activity, proving effective even against multi-drug resistant strains. Our findings underscore OmegAMP's potential to significantly advance computational frameworks in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. |
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| spellingShingle | OmegAMP: Targeted AMP Discovery through Biologically Informed Generation Soares, Diogo Hetzel, Leon Szymczak, Paulina Torres, Marcelo Der Torossian Sommer, Johanna de la Fuente-Nunez, Cesar Theis, Fabian Günnemann, Stephan Szczurek, Ewa Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Biomolecules Deep learning-based antimicrobial peptide (AMP) discovery faces critical challenges such as limited controllability, lack of representations that efficiently model antimicrobial properties, and low experimental hit rates. To address these challenges, we introduce OmegAMP, a framework designed for reliable AMP generation with increased controllability. Its diffusion-based generative model leverages a novel conditioning mechanism to achieve fine-grained control over desired physicochemical properties and to direct generation towards specific activity profiles, including species-specific effectiveness. This is further enhanced by a biologically informed encoding space that significantly improves overall generative performance. Complementing these generative capabilities, OmegAMP leverages a novel synthetic data augmentation strategy to train classifiers for AMP filtering, drastically reducing false positive rates and thereby increasing the likelihood of experimental success. Our in silico experiments demonstrate that OmegAMP delivers state-of-the-art performance across key stages of the AMP discovery pipeline, enabling us to achieve an unprecedented success rate in wet lab experiments. We tested 25 candidate peptides, 24 of them (96%) demonstrated antimicrobial activity, proving effective even against multi-drug resistant strains. Our findings underscore OmegAMP's potential to significantly advance computational frameworks in the fight against antimicrobial resistance. |
| title | OmegAMP: Targeted AMP Discovery through Biologically Informed Generation |
| topic | Machine Learning Artificial Intelligence Biomolecules |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.17247 |