{"title":"Making the most of presubmission enquiries","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s43588-025-00817-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-025-00817-6","url":null,"abstract":"We provide recommendations on how to write an effective presubmission enquiry.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"5 5","pages":"355-355"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.comhttps://www.nature.com/articles/s43588-025-00817-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144129670","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}
Nan Deng, Xifeng Gu, Ying Fan, Shlomo Havlin, An Zeng
{"title":"The critical role of persistent disruption in advancing science","authors":"Nan Deng, Xifeng Gu, Ying Fan, Shlomo Havlin, An Zeng","doi":"10.1038/s43588-025-00808-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-025-00808-7","url":null,"abstract":"Disruptive innovation is an important feature of scientific research. However, increasing evidence in recent years shows that highly disruptive papers are not necessarily milestone works in science and may even receive very few citations. To understand the mechanisms leading to such phenomena, we develop a link disruption metric that quantifies the disruptiveness of each citation link. This metric allows us to investigate disruption at both the reference and citation levels, enabling the development of a two-dimensional framework to evaluate the persistence of disruption caused by a given paper. Surprisingly, we find that papers with high reference disruption can have high citation disruption, meaning that a paper that disrupts previous papers may itself be further disrupted by its later citing papers. We find that persistently disruptive papers (disruptive papers that are not disrupted by citing papers) are more likely to be recognized as award-winning papers and receive high numbers of citations. Finally, we find that papers of larger teams and papers in recent years, though found to have weaker disruption, are more likely to have stronger persistent disruption once they disrupt previous papers. This study introduces a concept of persistent disruption, which marks papers that disrupt previous work but remain undisrupted later, signaling lasting impact. Milestone papers are found to be consistently associated with persistent disruption.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"5 6","pages":"492-501"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144112881","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}
Vinith M. Suriyakumar, Anna Zink, Maia Hightower, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Brett Beaulieu-Jones
{"title":"Computational challenges arising in algorithmic fairness and health equity with generative AI","authors":"Vinith M. Suriyakumar, Anna Zink, Maia Hightower, Marzyeh Ghassemi, Brett Beaulieu-Jones","doi":"10.1038/s43588-025-00806-9","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-025-00806-9","url":null,"abstract":"The use of generative artificial intelligence (AI) in healthcare is advancing, but understanding its potential challenges for fairness and health equity is still in its early stages. This Comment investigates how to define fairness and measure it, and highlights research that can help address challenges in the field.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"5 9","pages":"698-700"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144087083","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":"Toward fair AI-driven medical text generation","authors":"Yumeng Zhang, Jiangning Song","doi":"10.1038/s43588-025-00807-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-025-00807-8","url":null,"abstract":"A recent study assesses bias in artificial intelligence (AI)-generated medical language to find differences in age, sex, and ethnicity. An optimization technique is proposed to improve fairness without sacrificing performance.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"5 5","pages":"361-362"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144082607","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":"DNA data storage for biomedical images using HELIX","authors":"Guanjin Qu, Zihui Yan, Xin Chen, Huaming Wu","doi":"10.1038/s43588-025-00793-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-025-00793-x","url":null,"abstract":"Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) data storage is expected to become a key medium for large-scale data. Biomedical data images typically require substantial storage space over extended periods, making them ideal candidates for DNA data storage. However, existing DNA data storage models are primarily designed for generic files and lack a comprehensive retrieval system for biomedical images. Here, to address this, we propose HELIX, a DNA-based storage system for biomedical images. HELIX introduces an image-compression algorithm tailored to the characteristics of biomedical images, achieving high compression rates and robust error tolerance. In addition, HELIX incorporates an error-correcting encoding algorithm that eliminates the need for indexing, enhancing storage density and decoding speed. We utilize a deep learning-based image repair algorithm for the predictive restoration of partially missing image blocks. In our in vitro experiments, we successfully stored two spatiotemporal genomics images. This sequencing process achieved 97.20% image quality at a depth of 7× coverage. A DNA-based storage system for biomedical images is proposed, combining compression, error correction and deep learning repair. It achieves 97.20% image quality at 7× coverage depth, demonstrating high compression and fault tolerance.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"5 5","pages":"397-404"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144043618","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":"Leveraging generative models with periodicity-aware, invertible and invariant representations for crystalline materials design","authors":"Zhilong Wang, Fengqi You","doi":"10.1038/s43588-025-00797-7","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-025-00797-7","url":null,"abstract":"Designing periodicity-aware, invariant and invertible representations provides an opportunity for the inverse design of crystalline materials with desired properties by generative models. This objective requires optimizing representations and refining the architecture of generative models, yet its feasibility remains uncertain, given current progress in molecular inverse generation. In this Perspective, we highlight the progress of various methods for designing representations and generative schemes for crystalline materials, discuss the challenges in the field and propose a roadmap for future developments. The inverse design of functional crystalline materials via generative models is a rapidly growing field, but one that faces challenges in representation and generation architectures. This Perspective systematically examines these limitations and explores strategies for future improvement.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"5 5","pages":"365-376"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144025562","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}
Zeyu Li, Huining Yuan, Wang Han, Yimin Hou, Hongjue Li, Haidong Ding, Zhiguo Jiang, Lijun Yang
{"title":"Bi-level identification of governing equations for nonlinear physical systems","authors":"Zeyu Li, Huining Yuan, Wang Han, Yimin Hou, Hongjue Li, Haidong Ding, Zhiguo Jiang, Lijun Yang","doi":"10.1038/s43588-025-00804-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-025-00804-x","url":null,"abstract":"Identifying governing equations from observational data is crucial for understanding nonlinear physical systems but remains challenging due to the risk of overfitting. Here we introduce the Bi-Level Identification of Equations (BILLIE) framework, which simultaneously discovers and validates equations using a hierarchical optimization strategy. The policy gradient algorithm of reinforcement learning is leveraged to achieve the bi-level optimization. We demonstrate BILLIE’s superior performance through comparisons with baseline methods in canonical nonlinear systems such as turbulent flows and three-body systems. Furthermore, we apply the BILLIE framework to discover RNA and protein velocity equations directly from single-cell sequencing data. The equations identified by BILLIE outperform empirical models in predicting cellular differentiation states, underscoring BILLIE’s potential to reveal fundamental physical laws across a wide range of scientific fields. In this study the authors introduce BILLIE, a bi-level framework for equation identification that decouples term selection and quantification, enhancing robustness and accuracy in modeling nonlinear systems. BILLIE outperforms existing methods in handling complex systems and imperfect data, as demonstrated through both simulations and real-world biological applications.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"5 6","pages":"456-466"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144052754","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":"Everything everywhere all at once: a probability-based enhanced sampling approach to rare events","authors":"Enrico Trizio, Peilin Kang, Michele Parrinello","doi":"10.1038/s43588-025-00799-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-025-00799-5","url":null,"abstract":"The problem of studying rare events is central to many areas of computer simulations. We recently proposed an approach to solving this problem that involves computing the committor function, showing how it can be iteratively computed in a variational way while efficiently sampling the transition state ensemble. Here we greatly improve this procedure by combining it with a metadynamics-like enhanced sampling approach in which a logarithmic function of the committor is used as a collective variable. This procedure leads to an accurate sampling of the free energy surface in which transition states and metastable basins are studied with the same thoroughness. We show that our approach can be used in cases with the possibility of competing reactive paths and metastable intermediates. In addition, we demonstrate how physical insights can be obtained from the optimized committor model and the sampled data, thus providing a full characterization of the rare event under study. A single semi-automatic enhanced sampling method for rare events, based on machine-learned committor functions, allows simultaneous sampling of reactive events, calculation of free energy and understanding of transition states.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"5 7","pages":"582-591"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2025-05-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144045191","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":"A quest toward comprehensive benchmarking of quantum computing software","authors":"Chenghong Zhu, Lei Zhang, Xin Wang","doi":"10.1038/s43588-025-00803-y","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-025-00803-y","url":null,"abstract":"A comprehensive open-source benchmarking suite is presented. It can be used to evaluate the performance and functionality of various quantum software development kits for manipulating and compiling quantum circuits.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"5 5","pages":"363-364"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144044423","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}
Christopher Jurich, Qianzhen Shao, Xinchun Ran, Zhongyue J. Yang
{"title":"Physics-based modeling in the new era of enzyme engineering","authors":"Christopher Jurich, Qianzhen Shao, Xinchun Ran, Zhongyue J. Yang","doi":"10.1038/s43588-025-00788-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43588-025-00788-8","url":null,"abstract":"Enzyme engineering is entering a new era characterized by the integration of computational strategies. While bioinformatics and artificial intelligence methods have been extensively applied to accelerate the screening of function-enhancing mutants, physics-based modeling methods, such as molecular mechanics and quantum mechanics, are essential complements in many objectives. In this Perspective, we highlight how physics-based modeling will help the field of computational enzyme engineering reach its full potential by exploring current developments, unmet challenges and emerging opportunities for tool development. This Perspective highlights the vital role of physics-based modeling in computational enzyme engineering, exploring key advances, challenges and future steps. By integrating machine learning, these approaches can enhance each other, unlocking the full potential of enzyme design and discovery.","PeriodicalId":74246,"journal":{"name":"Nature computational science","volume":"5 4","pages":"279-291"},"PeriodicalIF":18.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144037960","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}