Zikang Wang

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2026

Recommending medications from electronic health records (EHRs) is a safety-critical task that demands therapeutic coverage, explicit safety constraints, traceable justification, and continual adaptivity. Supervised neural models freeze at deployment and cannot reason about new phenotypes, while existing LLM pipelines are single-pass and lack a cross-case improvement loop. We propose **SEMPA**, a training-free agentic framework that couples a Proposer with a Critic in multi-round adversarial deliberation, grounds candidates with molecular-aware retrieval, contrastively evolves both agents’ natural-language policies under a semantic-anchor constraint, and enforces rule-based DDI and contraindication checks. On 100 MIMIC-IV encounters, SEMPA reaches 0.3116 Jaccard, 0.7295 F1, and a 0.0172 DDI rate, improving F1 by 57.7% and cutting DDI by 77.5% over the strongest supervised baseline. Two LLM judges rank SEMPA highest, and six-backbone studies confirm that gains derive from the framework rather than a specific model.

2025

Proteins are critical for various molecular functions, relying on their precise tertiary structures. This structure-sequence relationship is complex and degenerate, meaning multiple sequences can fold into a similar structure. The challenges in protein prediction, design, and modification increase with sequence complexity, while research on RNA-protein interactions, especially RNA-binding proteins (RBPs), is gaining importance. Large-scale pre-trained language models (LLMs) have shown promising results in handling biological sequences by treating them as natural language, though integrating spatial structures remains complex due to the need for specialized visual and 3D modeling approaches. We introduce a method to integrate protein 3D structural data within a sequence processing framework, converting 3D coordinates into discrete structure tokens using a VQ-VAE-like network. This simplifies the handling of 3D data, avoiding complex pipelines and facilitating a unified sequence-to-sequence processing model. Our approach demonstrates strong performance across a range of tasks, achieving high sequence recovery in inverse folding and protein-conditioned RNA design. These outstanding results demonstrate significant potential for application in complex biological systems research.
Large Language Models (LLMs) are revolutionizing bioinformatics, enabling advanced analysis of DNA, RNA, proteins, and single-cell data. This survey provides a systematic review of recent advancements, focusing on genomic sequence modeling, RNA structure prediction, protein function inference, and single-cell transcriptomics. Meanwhile, we also discuss several key challenges, including data scarcity, computational complexity, and cross-omics integration, and explore future directions such as multimodal learning, hybrid AI models, and clinical applications. By offering a comprehensive perspective, this paper underscores the transformative potential of LLMs in driving innovations in bioinformatics and precision medicine.
RNA-binding proteins (RBPs) play essential roles in post-transcriptional gene regulation via recognizing specific RNA molecules as well as modulating several key physiological processes in cellulo, represented by alternative splicing and RNA degradation. Despite extensive research, most existing approaches still rely on superficial sequence features or coarse structural representations, limiting their ability to capture the intricate nature of RBP-RNA interactions. The recent surge in large language models (LLMs), combined with advances in geometric deep learning for extracting three-dimensional representations, enables the integration of multi-modal, multi-scale biological data for precise modeling and biologically informed de novo RNA design. In this work, we curate and extend RPI15223 into a multi-resolution, structure-level RBP-RNA dataset, and introduce RBPtool, a multi-task, multi-resolution framework that combines a geometric vector perception (GVP) module together with a deep language model encoder to fuse sequence and structural information. Our tool achieves state-of-the-art performance on public benchmarks and the RPI15223 dataset, while also supporting fine-grained level predictions and enabling de novo RNA design through a generative module conditioned on protein, cell-type, and specified species. RBPtool provides a fast and versatile platform for both fundamental RBP-RNA research and practical RNA drug design, delivering enhanced predictive accuracy and fine-grained structural insights.