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TopoFlow: Evolutionarily Conditioned Flow Matching for Protein Conformational Ensemble Generation

Proteins function through dynamic conformational ensembles rather than a single static structure, yet accurately modeling these ensembles remains challenging. Here, we introduce TopoFlow, an evolutionarily conditioned flow-matching framework for protein conformational ensemble generation. TopoFlow uses evolutionary representations from multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) to encode global…

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