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The accuracy of SCUBA-D, a protein backbone structure diffusion model trained independently and orthogonally to existing protein structure prediction networks, is confirmed by the X-ray structures of 16 designed proteins and a protein complex, and by experimental validation of designed heme-binding proteins and Ras-binding proteins.

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This is a summary of: Liu, Y. et al. De novo protein design with a denoising diffusion network independent of pretrained structure prediction models. Nat. Methods https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-024-02437-w (2024).

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Published: 28 October 2024

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