ProteinConformers: large-scale and energetically profiled descriptions of protein conformational landscapes

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Authors: Yihang Zhou, Chen Wei, Minghao Sun, Lin Wang, Jin Song, Fanding Xu, Yang Li, Wei Zheng, Yang Zhang
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Abstract

Modeling protein conformational landscapes is essential for understanding dynamics, allostery, and drug discovery, yet existing resources lack diverse conformational coverage, energetic annotations, or benchmarking standards. ProteinConformers (https://zhanggroup.org/ProteinConformers) provides 2.7 million geometry-optimized conformations generated with a multi-seed molecular dynamics strategy, paired with 13.7 million energy evaluations and 5.5 million similarity annotations. It delivers continuous landscapes from non-native to near-native states, benchmarking framework for multi-conformation generators, and an interactive analysis platform.

Fields of Study & Subjects

Protein Structure and Dynamics Computational Drug Discovery Methods Machine Learning in Materials Science

Publication details

Journal / source
eLife
Publisher
eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd
Publication date
14 May 2026
Document type
Preprint