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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2026

AI-based methods for simulating, sampling, and predicting protein ensembles.

Bowen Jing, Bonnie Berger, Tommi Jaakkola

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7citing papers in PubMed
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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. AI-Physics-Experiment Trinity for Integrated Protein Dynamics Modeling.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  5. Assessing the Performance of BioEmu in Understanding Protein Dynamics.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Bowen JingComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: bjing@mit.edu.
Bonnie BergerComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA; Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: bab@mit.edu.
Tommi JaakkolaComputer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. Electronic address: tommi@csail.mit.edu.

Funding

Manifold representations and active learning for 21 st century biologyR35GM141861 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI BERGER, BONNIE · 2021 to 2025
$1.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM141861
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advances in deep learning have opened an era of abundant and accurately predicted protein structures; however, similar progress in protein ensembles has remained elusive. This review highlights several recent research directions towards AI-based predictions of protein ensembles, including coarse-grained force fields, generative models, multiple sequence alignment perturbation methods, and modeling of ensemble descriptors. An emphasis is placed on realistic assessments of the technological maturity of current methods, the strengths and weaknesses of broad families of techniques, and promising machine learning frameworks at an early stage of development. We advocate for 'closing the loop' between model training, simulation, and inference to overcome challenges in training data availability and to enable the next generation of models.

Indexed as

Computational BiologyComputer SimulationProteinsGenerative Artificial IntelligenceMachine LearningModels, MolecularPrediction AlgorithmsProtein ConformationProteins

Identifiers

PMID41932144
PMCPMC13592023

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