Molecular render representing ESM-IF1

ESM-IF1

Inverse folding from backbone structures with ESM

ESM-IF1 is an inverse-folding model trained on 12 million CATH-derived and predicted structures to recover sequences for a given backbone. It captures sequence diversity by sampling from a learned distribution and scores candidate designs by likelihood. Useful for redesigning stable scaffolds and annotating designability of predicted structures.

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At a glance

Input
Protein backbone (PDB)
Output
Designed sequences (FASTA)
Developed by
Meta AI
Published
Hsu et al., ICML 2022 · 2022
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