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Jaakkola, Tommi S.
Barzilay, Regina
Corso, Gabriele
Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
2025-11-25T19:39:23Z
2025-11-25T19:39:23Z
2025-05
2025-08-14T19:36:51.169Z
https://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/164058
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1963-8755
In 2021, DeepMind’s AlphaFold2 revolutionized single-chain protein structure prediction achieving atomic accuracy, solving a longstanding challenge in biology. However, understanding biomolecular interactions, a critical problem for advancing drug discovery and biological research, remained unsolved. This thesis presents our research to redefine the machine learning approach to this problem, modeling structures with a new generative paradigm and tailoring the neural architectures and learning tasks to the specific challenges that arose. These ideas combined with significant engineering efforts led us to develop a class of open-source models from DiffDock to the recent Boltz-1. These have significantly pushed our ability to understand biomolecular interactions, they have been widely adopted in industry and academia to help with drug development and protein design and they have opened the door to new research paradigms to push biological research further.
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Modeling Biomolecular Interactions with Generative Models
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