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Programming Biomolecular Interactions with All-Atom Generative Model
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Programming Biomolecular Interactions with All-Atom Generative Model

Xiangzhe Kong, Junwei Chen, Ziting Zhang +25 more
March 2026
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bioRxiv
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10.64898/2026.03.12.711044
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By proving that molecular recognition principles transfer across chemical scales—from small molecules to nanobodies—AnewOmni collapses decades of modality-specific design silos and delivers experimentally validated hits against the historically undruggable KRAS G12D target.

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Summary

AnewOmni, a unified all-atom generative framework trained on over 5 million biomolecular complexes, successfully designs functional binders across diverse molecular modalities—from small molecules to nanobodies—by learning transferable atomic-scale interaction principles, achieving 23-75% experimental success rates on challenging therapeutic targets including KRAS G12D and PCSK9 without high-throughput screening, with designed structures validated by crystallography at 0.92 Å RMSD and demonstrating robust zero-shot generalization to previously unseen target types including RNA, DNA, and glycans.

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Main Claim 1 –

Joint cross-modality training improves generative performance over specialized models

Supporting evidence

  • Cross-modality training transfers interaction patterns and recovers native contacts
  • AnewOmni zero-shot generalizes to RNA, DNA, and glycan targets
  • Programmable graph prompts steer molecular topology, chemistry, and geometry
Main Claim 2 –

AnewOmni designs functional small-molecule inhibitors for challenging targets

Supporting evidence

  • AnewOmni designs KRAS-targeting linear and cyclic peptides with high success
  • AnewOmni designs high-affinity nanobodies with high experimental success
Main Claim 3 –

Generative likelihood effectively ranks molecular design candidates for testing

Supporting evidence

  • Allosteric modulator design achieves crystal-validated binding poses
  • Allosteric PCSK9 modulators inhibit secretion to upregulate LDLR

Abstract

Biomolecular interactions lie at the core of cellular life, spanning diverse molecular modalities from small molecules to nucleic acids and proteins. Nevertheless, design strategies remain separated despite shared physicochemical principles of molecular recognition. Here we present AnewOmni, a unified generative framework trained on more than 5 million biomolecular complexes, that enables transferable molecular design across molecular scales by assembling chemically meaningful building blocks at atomic resolution. We further introduce programmable graph prompts to support user-defined chemical, topological, and geometric steering during generation, exploring hybrid and unconventional chemistries beyond canonical structures. We demonstrate that transferable learning of interaction patterns and physical constraints across molecular modalities is possible, via an atom-to-block latent space capturing both atomic details and structural priors. The framework successfully designed small molecules, peptides, and nanobodies targeting the challenging KRAS G12D switch II pocket, as well as orthosteric peptides and allosteric small-molecule inhibitors for PCSK9 in the absence of known binding site, achieving 23%-75% success with only low-throughput validation, bypassing modality-specific high-throughput screening. AnewOmni is the first to succeed in functional molecular design across all scales, from small chemical entities to large biologics, and represents a stepstone towards general molecular reasoning engines, advocating a generative foundation model for biomolecular interactions to enter regimes where data and human intuition remain limited.

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