Ryotaro Okabe, Abhijatmedhi Chotrattanapituk, Artittaya Boonkird, Nina Andrejevic, Xiang Fu, Tommi S. Jaakkola, Qichen Song, Thanh Nguyen, Nathan Drucker, Sai Mu, Yao Wang, Bolin Liao, Yongqiang Cheng, Mingda Li
{"title":"Virtual node graph neural network for full phonon prediction","authors":"Ryotaro Okabe, Abhijatmedhi Chotrattanapituk, Artittaya Boonkird, Nina Andrejevic, Xiang Fu, Tommi S. Jaakkola, Qichen Song, Thanh Nguyen, Nathan Drucker, Sai Mu, Yao Wang, Bolin Liao, Yongqiang Cheng, Mingda Li","doi":"10.1038/s43588-024-00661-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-024-00661-0","url":null,"abstract":"Understanding the structure–property relationship is crucial for designing materials with desired properties. The past few years have witnessed remarkable progress in machine-learning methods for this connection. However, substantial challenges remain, including the generalizability of models and prediction of properties with materials-dependent output dimensions. Here we present the virtual node graph neural network to address the challenges. By developing three virtual node approaches, we achieve Γ-phonon spectra and full phonon dispersion prediction from atomic coordinates. We show that, compared with the machine-learning interatomic potentials, our approach achieves orders-of-magnitude-higher efficiency with comparable to better accuracy. This allows us to generate databases for Γ-phonon containing over 146,000 materials and phonon band structures of zeolites. Our work provides an avenue for rapid and high-quality prediction of phonon band structures enabling materials design with desired phonon properties. The virtual node method also provides a generic method for machine-learning design with a high level of flexibility. In this study, the authors present a virtual node graph neural network to enable the prediction of material properties with variable output dimensions. This method offers fast and accurate predictions of phonon band structures in complex solids.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"4 7","pages":"522-531"},"PeriodicalIF":12.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141602338","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Vadim K. Karnaukhov, Dmitrii S. Shcherbinin, Anton O. Chugunov, Dmitriy M. Chudakov, Roman G. Efremov, Ivan V. Zvyagin, Mikhail Shugay
{"title":"Structure-based prediction of T cell receptor recognition of unseen epitopes using TCRen","authors":"Vadim K. Karnaukhov, Dmitrii S. Shcherbinin, Anton O. Chugunov, Dmitriy M. Chudakov, Roman G. Efremov, Ivan V. Zvyagin, Mikhail Shugay","doi":"10.1038/s43588-024-00653-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-024-00653-0","url":null,"abstract":"T cell receptor (TCR) recognition of foreign peptides presented by major histocompatibility complex protein is a major event in triggering the adaptive immune response to pathogens or cancer. The prediction of TCR–peptide interactions has great importance for therapy of cancer as well as infectious and autoimmune diseases but remains a major challenge, particularly for novel (unseen) peptide epitopes. Here we present TCRen, a structure-based method for ranking candidate unseen epitopes for a given TCR. The first stage of the TCRen pipeline is modeling of the TCR–peptide–major histocompatibility complex structure. Then a TCR–peptide residue contact map is extracted from this structure and used to rank all candidate epitopes on the basis of an interaction score with the target TCR. Scoring is performed using an energy potential derived from the statistics of TCR–peptide contact preferences in existing crystal structures. We show that TCRen has high performance in discriminating cognate versus unrelated peptides and can facilitate the identification of cancer neoepitopes recognized by tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes. TCRen predicts TCR specificity by modeling the TCR–peptide–MHC structure and estimating the TCR–peptide interaction energy using a statistical potential. The use of structural information allows TCRen to generalize to unseen epitopes, such as cancer neoepitopes.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"4 7","pages":"510-521"},"PeriodicalIF":12.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567219","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Unlocking T-cell receptor–epitope insights with structural analysis","authors":"Miaozhe Huo, Yuepeng Jiang, Shuai Cheng Li","doi":"10.1038/s43588-024-00654-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-024-00654-z","url":null,"abstract":"A method leverages protein structural data to predict T-cell receptor–peptide interactions for unseen peptide epitopes, which can be particularly useful for applications in cancer immunotherapy, autoimmunity studies, and vaccine design.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"4 7","pages":"475-476"},"PeriodicalIF":12.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141567352","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Free-form and multi-physical metamaterials with forward conformality-assisted tracing","authors":"Liujun Xu, Gaole Dai, Fubao Yang, Jinrong Liu, Yuhong Zhou, Jun Wang, Guoqiang Xu, Jiping Huang, Cheng-Wei Qiu","doi":"10.1038/s43588-024-00660-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-024-00660-1","url":null,"abstract":"Transformation theory, active control and inverse design have been mainstream in creating free-form metamaterials. However, existing frameworks cannot simultaneously satisfy the requirements of isotropic, passive and forward design. Here we propose a forward conformality-assisted tracing method to address the geometric and single-physical-field constraints of conformal transformation. Using a conformal mesh composed of orthogonal streamlines and isotherms (or isothermal surfaces), this method quasi-analytically produces free-form metamaterials using only isotropic media. The geometric nature of this approach allows for universal regulation of both dissipative thermal fields and non-dissipative electromagnetic fields. We experimentally demonstrate free-form thermal cloaking in both two and three dimensions. Additionally, the multi-physical functionalities of our method, including optical cloaking, bending and thermo-electric transparency, confirm its broad applicability. Our method features improvements in efficiency, accuracy and adaptability over previous approaches. This study provides an effective method for designing complex metamaterials with arbitrary shapes across various physical domains. Here a conformality-assisted tracing method is proposed to devise free-form and three-dimensional conformal metamaterials, featuring accuracy and efficiency in handling complex geometry and adaptability to various diffusion and wave fields.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"4 7","pages":"532-541"},"PeriodicalIF":12.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141565251","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Takahiro Yabe, Massimiliano Luca, Kota Tsubouchi, Bruno Lepri, Marta C. Gonzalez, Esteban Moro
{"title":"Enhancing human mobility research with open and standardized datasets","authors":"Takahiro Yabe, Massimiliano Luca, Kota Tsubouchi, Bruno Lepri, Marta C. Gonzalez, Esteban Moro","doi":"10.1038/s43588-024-00650-3","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-024-00650-3","url":null,"abstract":"Human mobility research intersects with various disciplines, with profound implications for urban planning, transportation engineering, public health, disaster management, and economic analysis. Here, we discuss the urgent need for open and standardized datasets in the field, including current challenges and lessons from other computational science domains, and propose collaborative efforts to enhance the validity and reproducibility of human mobility research.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"4 7","pages":"469-472"},"PeriodicalIF":12.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-024-00650-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141494468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Alexandre Hocquet, Frédéric Wieber, Gabriele Gramelsberger, Konrad Hinsen, Markus Diesmann, Fernando Pasquini Santos, Catharina Landström, Benjamin Peters, Dawid Kasprowicz, Arianna Borrelli, Phillip Roth, Clarissa Ai Ling Lee, Alin Olteanu, Stefan Böschen
{"title":"Software in science is ubiquitous yet overlooked","authors":"Alexandre Hocquet, Frédéric Wieber, Gabriele Gramelsberger, Konrad Hinsen, Markus Diesmann, Fernando Pasquini Santos, Catharina Landström, Benjamin Peters, Dawid Kasprowicz, Arianna Borrelli, Phillip Roth, Clarissa Ai Ling Lee, Alin Olteanu, Stefan Böschen","doi":"10.1038/s43588-024-00651-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-024-00651-2","url":null,"abstract":"Software is much more than just code. It is time to confront the complexity of licenses, uses, governance, infrastructure and other facets of software in science. Their influence is ubiquitous yet overlooked.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"4 7","pages":"465-468"},"PeriodicalIF":12.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-024-00651-2.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141478134","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Promising directions of machine learning for partial differential equations","authors":"Steven L. Brunton, J. Nathan Kutz","doi":"10.1038/s43588-024-00643-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-024-00643-2","url":null,"abstract":"Partial differential equations (PDEs) are among the most universal and parsimonious descriptions of natural physical laws, capturing a rich variety of phenomenology and multiscale physics in a compact and symbolic representation. Here, we examine several promising avenues of PDE research that are being advanced by machine learning, including (1) discovering new governing PDEs and coarse-grained approximations for complex natural and engineered systems, (2) learning effective coordinate systems and reduced-order models to make PDEs more amenable to analysis, and (3) representing solution operators and improving traditional numerical algorithms. In each of these fields, we summarize key advances, ongoing challenges, and opportunities for further development. Machine learning has enabled major advances in the field of partial differential equations. This Review discusses some of these efforts and other ongoing challenges and opportunities for development.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"4 7","pages":"483-494"},"PeriodicalIF":12.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141473307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"An invitation to social scientists","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s43588-024-00656-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-024-00656-x","url":null,"abstract":"Nature Computational Science wants to publish your computational social science research.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"4 6","pages":"381-381"},"PeriodicalIF":12.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-024-00656-x.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141461107","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The exciting potential and daunting challenge of using GPS human-mobility data for epidemic modeling","authors":"Francisco Barreras, Duncan J. Watts","doi":"10.1038/s43588-024-00637-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-024-00637-0","url":null,"abstract":"Large-scale GPS location datasets hold immense potential for measuring human mobility and interpersonal contact, both of which are essential for data-driven epidemiology. However, despite their potential and widespread adoption during the COVID-19 pandemic, there are several challenges with these data that raise concerns regarding the validity and robustness of its applications. Here we outline two types of challenges—some related to accessing and processing these data, and some related to data quality—and propose several research directions to address them moving forward. While large-scale GPS location datasets have been instrumental to applications in epidemiology, there are still several challenges with these data that should be considered and addressed to make data-driven epidemiology more reliable.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"4 6","pages":"398-411"},"PeriodicalIF":12.0,"publicationDate":"2024-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141428408","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}