Portrait de Yijie Zhang

Yijie Zhang

Doctorat - McGill
Superviseur⋅e principal⋅e
Sujets de recherche
Apprentissage de représentations
Apprentissage profond
Biologie computationnelle

Publications

R3Design: deep tertiary structure-based RNA sequence design and beyond
Cheng Tan
Zhangyang Gao
Hanqun Cao
Siyuan Li
Siqi Ma
Stan Z. Li
The rational design of Ribonucleic acid (RNA) molecules is crucial for advancing therapeutic applications, synthetic biology, and understand… (voir plus)ing the fundamental principles of life. Traditional RNA design methods have predominantly focused on secondary structure-based sequence design, often neglecting the intricate and essential tertiary interactions. We introduce R3Design, a tertiary structure-based RNA sequence design method that shifts the paradigm to prioritize tertiary structure in the RNA sequence design. R3Design significantly enhances sequence design on native RNA backbones, achieving high sequence recovery and Macro-F1 score, and outperforming traditional secondary structure-based approaches by substantial margins. We demonstrate that R3Design can design RNA sequences that fold into the desired tertiary structures by validating these predictions using advanced structure prediction models. This method, which is available through standalone software, provides a comprehensive toolkit for designing, folding, and evaluating RNA at the tertiary level. Our findings demonstrate R3Design’s superior capability in designing RNA sequences, which achieves around \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{upgreek} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}