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Zheng Dai¹, Sachit D Saksena¹, Geraldine Horny²

¹Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA.

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We developed a computational method to create large, cost-effective libraries of biological sequences for discovering new therapeutics. This approach ensures a high proportion of desirable candidates for efficient drug discovery.

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Area of Science:

Biotechnology
Computational Biology
Drug Discovery

Background:

Discovering novel biological therapeutics relies on highly diverse candidate sequence libraries.
Existing methods for library creation can be costly and may not guarantee a high proportion of desirable candidates.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose a computationally efficient method for designing large, cost-effective factorizable libraries.
To optimize the design of sequence libraries for therapeutic discovery.

Main Methods:

Developed computationally designed factorizable libraries using concatenated segment libraries.
Represented sequence optimality objective functions as inner products of feature vectors.
Designed a novel optimization method termed stochastically annealed product spaces (SAPS).

Main Results:

Demonstrated efficient design of factorizable libraries meeting specific objective functions.
Successfully applied SAPS to create diverse and efficient antibody CDR-H3 sequence libraries.
Optimized libraries exhibited desired characteristics for therapeutic applications.

Conclusions:

Factorizable libraries offer a cost-effective strategy for generating large, high-quality sequence libraries.
The SAPS method provides an efficient approach for designing optimized biological sequence libraries.
This computational strategy advances the discovery of novel biological therapeutics.