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Predicting mutational effects on protein binding from folding energy
Arthur Deng, Karsten Householder, Fang Wu, Sebastian Thrun, K. Christopher Garcia, Brian Trippe
https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.05502

Predicting mutational effects on protein binding from folding energy
Accurate estimation of mutational effects on protein-protein binding energies is an open problem with applications in structural biology and therapeutic design. Several deep learning predictors for this task have been proposed, but, presumably due to the scarcity of binding data, these methods underperform computationally expensive estimates based on empirical force fields. In response, we propose a transfer-learning approach that leverages advances in protein sequence modeling and folding stab…