1. Solving Inverse Problems in Protein Space Using Diffusion-Based Priors
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Levy, Axel, Chan, Eric R., Fridovich-Keil, Sara, Poitevin, Frédéric, Zhong, Ellen D., and Wetzstein, Gordon
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Computer Science - Machine Learning - Abstract
The interaction of a protein with its environment can be understood and controlled via its 3D structure. Experimental methods for protein structure determination, such as X-ray crystallography or cryogenic electron microscopy, shed light on biological processes but introduce challenging inverse problems. Learning-based approaches have emerged as accurate and efficient methods to solve these inverse problems for 3D structure determination, but are specialized for a predefined type of measurement. Here, we introduce a versatile framework to turn raw biophysical measurements of varying types into 3D atomic models. Our method combines a physics-based forward model of the measurement process with a pretrained generative model providing a task-agnostic, data-driven prior. Our method outperforms posterior sampling baselines on both linear and non-linear inverse problems. In particular, it is the first diffusion-based method for refining atomic models from cryo-EM density maps.
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- 2024