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Diffusion-based Representation Integration for Foundation Models Improves Spatial Transcriptomics Analysis
Atishay Jain, Tuan Minh Pham, David H. Laidlaw, Ying Ma, Ritambhara Singh
DRIFT improves spatial transcriptomics analysis by integrating spatial context into foundation models using diffusion on spatial graphs, outperforming specialized methods.
Bioinformatics · Jul 1, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Generative design of antigen-specific T-cell receptor sequences with a conditional diffusion model
Yumeng Zhang, Wenhua Liang, 许舒婷, Matthew J. Witney, Xiao‐Dong Su, Miles C Andrews, Jamie Rossjohn, Anthony Wayne Purcell, Feng Wang, Jiangning Song
This paper introduces TCRDiff, a conditional diffusion model for generating antigen-specific TCR sequences, validated through in vitro assays.
bioRxiv · Jul 1, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics
Pep2Mol: 3D Molecule Generation Targeting Protein-Protein Interfaces with Diffusion Models
Rongting Yue, Zekun Yang, Gustavo de Miranda Seabra, Chenglong Li, Yanjun Li
Pep2Mol generates 3D molecules targeting protein-protein interfaces using diffusion models, achieving state-of-the-art binding affinities for small-molecule inhibitors.
bioRxiv · Jun 29, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics
F.A.D.E. (Fully Agentic Drug Engine): A Conversational AI Platform for Drug Discovery
Jason Kantorow, Natesan Mani, Naveen R. Mohanraj, Xue Zong
F.A.D.E. is a conversational AI platform that generates drug candidates from natural language queries, outperforming reference ligands in drug-likeness for two targets.
bioRxiv · Jun 25, 2026 · PreprintBiophysics
Stimulus and circuit contributions to the information geometry of neural manifolds
Sven Goedeke, Justus Kautz, Christian Leibold
The paper develops a differential geometric framework to analyze how neural manifold geometry is shaped by feedforward and recurrent connectivity, showing feedforward connectivity determines representational geometry.
bioRxiv · Jun 25, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience
Robust Conditional Diffusion with Noisy Templates for Antibody Sequence-Structure Design
Pi Liu, Chenyang Yan, Chenyang Yan, Xiao Liu, Shujian Huang, 吴镇, Jianbing Zhang
This paper introduces NT-ABDiff, a diffusion model for antibody sequence-structure design that improves CDR recovery and structural accuracy using noisy and unreliable templates.
bioRxiv · Jun 24, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics
AFM-Fold: Rapid Reconstruction of Protein Conformations from AFM Images
Tsuyoshi Kawai, Yasuhiro Matsunaga
AFM-Fold reconstructs 3D protein conformations from AFM images using a generative AI framework, outperforming rigid-body fitting and capturing conformational dynamics.
Biophysical Journal · Jun 19, 2026Peer-reviewedBiophysics
Counterfactual Diffusion Models for Interpretable Explanations of Artificial Intelligence Models in Pathology
Laura Žigutytė, Tim Lenz, Tianyu Han, Nic Gabriel Reitsam, Sebastian Foersch, Katherine Jane Hewitt, Moritz Jesinghaus, Zunamys Itzell Carrero, Michaela Unger, Asier Rabasco Meneghetti, Georg Lurje, Isabella Lurje, Sophia Herda, Justus Pein, Deniz Uluk, , Jakob Nikolas Kather
MoPaDi generates counterfactual explanations for histopathology images to reveal morphological features driving classifier predictions, improving interpretability in digital pathology.
Cancer Research · Jun 17, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
PertDiffBench: Benchmarking Diffusion Models for Single-Cell Perturbation Response Prediction
zj Song, Yujia Xiang, W T Jin, Jiangmeng Li, Chuxiong Sun, Linhai Xie
PertDiffBench benchmarks diffusion models for predicting transcriptional responses to perturbations in single-cell and bulk RNA-seq data, showing mixed performance across different tasks and settings.
bioRxiv · Jun 13, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics
AlphaFold3 for Structure-guided Ligand Discovery
Kartikeya M. Menon, Aakash Davasam, Guo Chen, Claire Bryant, Zifang Deng, Brandon Lam, Chao Yang, Dylan Barcelos, Fangyu Liu, Assaf Alon, Jiankun Lyu
Retrospective and prospective benchmarks show AlphaFold3 co-folding memorizes training poses and achieves half the prospective hit rate of DOCK3 at 6,700-fold higher cost, but excels as a post-docking filter.
bioRxiv · Jun 12, 2026 · PreprintPharmacology & Toxicology✦ In-depth digest
An Expert-Informed Synthetic Animal Data Generator: A Physiology-Consistent Generative Framework for High-Fidelity Animal Digital Twins
Ali Youssef, Congcong Sun, Tomás Norton
This paper introduces EICD, a framework that generates physiology-consistent synthetic animal data by embedding mechanistic biological principles, achieving high fidelity and reducing physiological hallucinations.
Smart Agricultural Technology · Jun 10, 2026Peer-reviewedBioengineering
Chromosome X Dosage Modulates Development of Aneuploidy in Genetically Diverse Mouse Embryonic Stem Cells
Alexander R. Stanton, Selcan C. Aydin, Daniel A. Skelly, Tracy McGarr, Dylan Stavish, Kim Leonhard, Seth M. Taapken, Tenneille E. Ludwig, Erik M. McIntire, Matthew T Pankratz, Anne Czechanski, Ted Choi, Steven P. Gygi, Ivana Barbaric, Thomas Vierbuchen, , Martín F. Pera
The paper identifies that X chromosome dosage influences aneuploidy development in mouse embryonic stem cells, with XO and XY lines showing higher aneuploidy rates than XX lines.
Stem Cell Reports · Jun 9, 2026Peer-reviewedGenetics
Comparative Evaluation of Deep Generative Models for Capturing Topological Features in Brain Structural Connectivity
Chisatao Kumada, Tomoyuki Hiroyasu, Satoru Hiwa
This study compares deep generative models for generating brain structural connectivity data, finding that WGAN-GP provides the most stable performance while VAE and DDPM have application-specific strengths.
bioRxiv · Jun 8, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience
An Agentic Platform for Drug Repurposing Unified across Molecular, Phenotypic, and Clinical Scales
C Wang, Mohamed El Moussaoui, Dongdong Zhang, Prathiksha Prabhakaraalva, Serge Merzliakov, Rita Jui-Hsien Lu, Nabila Zaman, Goutam Chakraborty, Kuan‐lin Huang
LinkD is a drug repurposing platform that integrates molecular, phenotypic, and clinical data to prioritize drugs, showing reduced prostate cancer incidence with beta-blockers.
bioRxiv · Jun 7, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics
STITCH: Spatial Transcriptomics Imputation via Flow Matching with Internal Learning
Sui Wang, X Wang, Qiangwei Peng, Tiejun Li
STITCH reconstructs high-resolution spatial transcriptomic atlases by imputing missing data in 2D and 3D spatial transcriptomics datasets.
bioRxiv · Jun 6, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics
CryoDiff: An uncertainty-aware diffusion model for Cryo-EM map enhancement
Bocheng Wen, Bintao He, Yiran Cheng, Shaozhen Zhou, Fa Zhang, Renmin Han
CryoDiff enhances cryo-EM maps using a diffusion model with uncertainty estimation, improving resolution and model completeness.
bioRxiv · Jun 6, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics
In Silico Generation of Gene Expression profiles usingDiffusion Models
Alice Lacan, Romain André, Michèle Sébag, Blaise Hanczar
This paper introduces diffusion models for generating synthetic gene expression data and shows they outperform existing methods in predictive performance.
BMC Bioinformatics · May 31, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
CLOP-DiT: Structured-Metadata-Conditioned Single-Cell Latent Generation via Contrastive Language-Omics Pretraining and Diffusion Transformers
Zeyu Fu, Yiyao Liu, Junping Wang, Song Wang
CLOP-DiT generates synthetic single-cell gene expression profiles from structured biological metadata using contrastive alignment and diffusion models, achieving high steering accuracy but limited cross-dataset variability.
Array · May 30, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics
Transcriptomics-Conditioned Virtual Tissue Synthesis via Diffusion Transformers
Pantelis Rafail Vlachas, Kalin Nonchev, Viktor Hendrik Koelzer, Gunnar Rätsch
The paper introduces STMDiT, a diffusion transformer that synthesizes H&E histopathology images from transcriptomic data, improving image quality and transcriptomic fidelity over existing methods.
bioRxiv · May 29, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics
MORPHE: Bridging Image Generation and Spatial Omics for Tissue Synthesis
Yuan Feng, Zachary Robers, Leyla Rasheed, Miao Yang, Shuo Wen, Kevin Lee, James Sohigian, Maria Brbić, John W. Hickey
MORPHE synthesizes biologically faithful tissue architecture from spatial-omics data, enabling reconstruction and extension of tissue context beyond experimental limitations.
bioRxiv · May 28, 2026 · PreprintSystems Biology
Diffusion-based stimulus optimization reveals functional organization across higher visual cortex
Margaret M. Henderson, Andrew F. Luo, Sungjoon Park, Michael J. Tarr, Leila Wehbe
The paper validates a diffusion-based method called BrainDiVE for generating stimuli that activate specific brain regions, showing enhanced category selectivity and revealing functional gradients in visual cortex.
bioRxiv · May 15, 2026 · PreprintNeuroscience
From static thresholds to dynamic waves: How biological memory destabilizes malaria transmission Potential
Steeven Belvinos Affognon, Priscille Barreaux, Shirley Abelman, Antoine M. G. Barreaux
This paper develops a delay-based framework to model malaria transmission dynamics, showing that biological memory from developmental delays can create time-dependent transmission potential and stability fluctuations.
bioRxiv · May 14, 2026 · PreprintEcology
Bayesian-Steered Structure Prediction of Mechanical Biomolecules Using Twisted Diffusion
Colin Klaus, Marcos M. Sotomayor
This paper introduces a Bayesian-steered diffusion method for predicting alternative conformations of mechanical biomolecules, demonstrating its ability to reproduce experimentally validated states of various proteins and DNA.
bioRxiv · May 13, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics
Simulation-conditioned generative modeling for biologically realistic pattern prediction
Kinshuk Sahu, Hugh C. Davis, Jia Grace Lu, César A. Villalobos, Avi Heyman, Emrah Şimşek, Lingchong You
This paper introduces a simulation-conditioned generative framework that combines mechanistic models with image generation to create biologically realistic patterns, enabling inference from experimental data.
bioRxiv · May 11, 2026 · PreprintSystems Biology
Distance-Restraint-Guided Diffusion Models for Sampling Protein Conformational Changes and Ligand Dissociation Pathways
Tatsuki Hori, Yoshitaka Moriwaki, Ryuichiro Ishitani
This paper introduces a distance-restraint-guided diffusion model to sample protein conformational changes and ligand dissociation pathways, achieving uniform coverage and high structural quality.
Journal of Chemical Theory and Computation · May 7, 2026Peer-reviewedBiophysics
Image-Conditioned Diffusion for Privacy-Preserving Synthetic Medical Images
Doron Stupp, Guy Lutsker, Or Spiegel-Yerushalmi, Eran Segal
This paper evaluates image-to-image diffusion for generating privacy-preserving synthetic medical images, finding it outperforms text-to-image methods in fidelity and clinical signal preservation.
bioRxiv · May 7, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics
Fast and Ultra-Capable Protein Design: Advancing the Frontier Through Atomistic SE(3)-Equivariance with Genie 3
Yi‐Cheng Lin, Minji Lee, Aakarsh Vermani, Ellena Jiang, Sebastiaan De Cooman, Matěj Špeťko, Mohammed AlQuraishi
This paper introduces Genie 3, a diffusion model that improves protein design by combining SE(3)-equivariance with hallucination, achieving state-of-the-art results in binder design and motif scaffolding.
bioRxiv · May 5, 2026 · PreprintBioinformatics
InversePep: Diffusion-Driven Structure-Based Inverse Folding for Functional Peptides
Srinivas Kashyap Chilakamarri, Sneha Reddy Kasturi, Sai Pranav Reddy Yerrabandla, Sanjana Gogte, Vani Kondaparthi
InversePep generates peptides with target structural geometries using a diffusion model, outperforming existing methods in producing geometry-consistent sequences.
Briefings in Bioinformatics · May 1, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics