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Using generative AI to design antibodies at Absci (@abscibio)

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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
8 months
@abscibio Finally, stay tuned for some exciting news on our latest antibody inverse folding model, IgDesign2 👀.
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
8 months
@abscibio As always, this work is a collaborative team effort, involving AI scientists and engineers, computational biologists, protein engineers, and wet lab scientists. If you're interested in joining such a team to advance the state of therapeutic antibody design, please reach out!.
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
8 months
@abscibio We hope these datasets will enable benchmarking efforts! For example, we evaluated the ability of models such as ABodyBuilder2 and ESMFold to predict binding vs. non-binding using self-consistency RMSD (scRMSD).
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
8 months
@abscibio For a quick refresher on IgDesign, see my thread from last year: We demonstrated in vitro success on antibody inverse folding for HCDR3 and HCDR123 design against 8 therapeutic targets. Model success rates were higher than a baseline as well.
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
2 years
We @abscibio are excited to unveil IgDesignâ„¢ @NeurIPSConf and present our work at @workshopmlsb @AI4D3 @genbio_workshop! IgDesign is an antibody inverse folding model that we have experimentally validated in our lab. Read the paper here: #NeurIPS2023
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
8 months
We @abscibio are excited to open source the code and datasets for IgDesign, with over 1,000 SPR datapoints against 7 targets! With these data, we benchmark the ability of folding models to predict binding. More details below and in
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Deep learning approaches have demonstrated the ability to design protein sequences given backbone structures [[1][1], [2][2], [3][3], [4][4], [5][5]]. While these approaches have been applied in...
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
8 months
I'm excited to release the code and datasets from our IgDesign work! Stay tuned for a longer post. For now check out our github repo: I'll be @workshopmlsb today. If you're interested in structure-based drug design, especially for antibodies, let's chat!.
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Biology+AI Daily
8 months
IgDesign: In vitro validated antibody design against multiple therapeutic antigens using inverse folding @abscibio . 1. The first in vitro validation of antibody inverse folding for designing binders to therapeutic antigens. IgDesign achieves high success rates across eight
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
8 months
Come check out IgFlow! @workshopmlsb @NeurIPSConf.
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Sanjay Nagaraj
8 months
Excited to share IgFlow, a flow matching-based method for antibody design at @NeurIPSConf tomorrow!. Come check out our poster at MLSB during the poster sessions in East meeting room 11/12. @abscibio @workshopmlsb.
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
9 months
RT @GabriCorso: Thrilled to announce Boltz-1, the first open-source and commercially available model to achieve AlphaFold3-level accuracy o….
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
11 months
RT @jacobastern: I'm at UW for MLCB 2024! If anyone is here and interested in talking antibody data and deep learning for antibody design,….
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
1 year
Welcome to the team!.
@damiano_sga
Damiano Sgarbossa
1 year
I'm excited to share that I'll be spending the summer in NYC as an intern at @abscibio! Looking forward to work with their awesome team over the next few months 🎉 If you're in NY, send me a message! I'd love to connect both scientifically and socially (let's grab a beer!).
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
2 years
RT @Biotech2k1: I read this paper from $ABSI. Its really fascinating stuff on using generative AI to develop and predict antibody antigen b….
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
2 years
@abscibio If you’re interested in joining such a team check out our current openings ( or DM me for more information.
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Anyone can talk about changing the world. We’re actually doing it. Explore current careers at Absci and get ready to prove that impossible isn’t.
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
2 years
I want to acknowledge the many talented contributors involved in this work. This latest data on functionality and developability highlights the multidisciplinary team we have built @abscibio; a team with the knowledge, skills, and motivation to go end-to-end in AI drug creation!
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
2 years
We’ve also open-sourced a dataset of over a thousand trastuzumab variants screened in surface plasmon resonance (SPR) against human HER2! We hope this dataset will help advance new methods for AI antibody design (.
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Contribute to AbSciBio/unlocking-de-novo-antibody-design development by creating an account on GitHub.
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
2 years
We went further and mapped the epitopes of these designs using alanine scanning mutagenesis. We found novel interactions between some designs and human HER2, which could be the basis for the improved function and cross-species reactivity in Candidate #2 and #3, respectively.
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
2 years
We screened these mAbs against a panel of HER2 orthologs and paralogs and found matching cross-reactivity profiles to trastuzumab. One design (Candidate #3) had better species cross-reactivity than trastuzumab with 5x higher affinity to cynomolgus and canine HER2.
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
2 years
We ran cell-based functional assays and found that one of our designs (Candidate #2) showed 3x higher potency than trastuzumab in cell-surface antigen binding and antibody-dependent cell cytotoxicity (ADCC).
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
2 years
We screened a subset of our designs in mAb format for functionality and developability. We found several developability profiles comparable to trastuzumab, a clinically approved antibody, and some with superior functionality. We’ve open-sourced this data for the community to use!
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Amir Shanehsazzadeh
2 years
We’re back again, this time with details on our models for de novo design and new, open sourced data on functionality and developability, going beyond binding. We show one design has 3x higher potency than trastuzumab!. Paper: Data:
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