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The Ranomics protein-design tool catalog.

Run feasibility scoring, generative binder design, structure prediction, and library planning from a single USD wallet. Every pipeline lands ranked candidates with downloadable PDBs and hands off cleanly into a Ranomics wet-lab campaign when a design is worth validating.

Step 1 Score the target Use Epitope Scout to identify candidate epitopes and rate binder-design feasibility before burning GPU-hours.
Step 2 Generate binders Run BindCraft, RFdiffusion, BoltzGen, RFantibody, or PXDesign on a target PDB. Score, clone, tweak, re-run.
Step 3 Validate in silico Refold candidates with AlphaFold2, ColabFold, or ESMFold. Use ProteinMPNN to redesign sequences on a fixed backbone.
Step 4 Validate in the lab Hand the shortlist into a Ranomics wet-lab campaign. Same team, same data loop — design and wet-lab share one pipeline.
Scope the target 2 tools
Design binders 7 tools
BindCraft

Pick BindCraft when you have a target PDB plus known hotspot residues and want de novo 60 to 150 aa protein binders.

Runtime 45 min Pacesa et al., bioRxiv 2024
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BoltzGen

Pick BoltzGen when you want one model that can design mini-proteins, nanobodies, antibodies, or peptides against the same target, or when your target involves glycans, post-translational modifications, or non-canonical residues.

Runtime 15 to 60 min Wohlwend et al., MIT (2024)
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ESMFold2 design

Gradient-based binder design via ESMFold2 inversion. Pick a paper-validated target preset, choose minibinder or scFv mode, and get ranked designs with iPTM scores in one model pass.

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IgGM

Pick IgGM to design or humanize an antibody / nanobody against your antigen, or to predict the antibody-antigen complex, all in one model. For VHH backbones use RFantibody; for paired scFv CDRs use ESMFold2 design; to validate a designed binder's fold use Boltz-2.

Runtime ~2 min to scales with samples x masked positions min Wang et al., ICLR 2025
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PXDesign

Pick PXDesign when AF2 confidence against a defined target matters and you want real ipTM, pLDDT, and pAE on every candidate. For hallucination-driven binder design without AF2 filtering use BindCraft, for antibody and nanobody CDRs use RFantibody, and for target structure generation without binder design use BoltzGen.

Runtime 30 to 60 min Bennett, N. R., Coventry, B., Goreshnik, I., et al. "Improving de novo protein binder design with deep learning." Nature Communications 14, 2625 (2023). Ranomics in-house pipeline; scoring stage uses AF2 Initial Guess.
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RFantibody

Pick RFantibody when you need a VHH (nanobody) scaffold against a target PDB. For de novo non-antibody binders, use BindCraft. For designs involving modified residues or glycans, use BoltzGen.

Runtime 15 to 60 min Bennett et al., bioRxiv 2024
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RFdiffusion

Pick RFdiffusion when you want general de novo binder design scored by AF2 multimer (ipTM, pLDDT, i_pAE). For antibody and nanobody scaffolds use RFantibody, for AF2-IG initial-guess scoring use PXDesign, and for hallucination-driven binders without AF2 filtering use BindCraft.

Runtime 15 to 30 min Watson, J. L., Juergens, D., Bennett, N. R., et al. "De novo design of protein structure and function with RFdiffusion." Nature 620, 1089 to 1100 (2023). Composite pipeline: RFdiffusion backbones, ProteinMPNN sequences, and AF2 multimer validation.
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Sequence on a backbone 1 tool
Structure prediction 4 tools
Check developability 1 tool
Other 2 tools
Side-by-side comparison runtime · paper
Tool Best for Typical runtime Paper / Repo
AlphaFold2 af2 Pick AF2 when you need the gold-standard structure prediction with calibrated pLDDT and PAE. For faster single-sequence folds use ESMFold (D4); for affinity-aware folds use Boltz-2 (D6).
runtime: 5 to 10 min
BindCraft bindcraft Pick BindCraft when you have a target PDB plus known hotspot residues and want de novo 60 to 150 aa protein binders.
runtime: 45 min
Boltz-2 boltz2 Pick Boltz-2 to validate a designed binder against your antigen. Single-sequence cofold with interface confidence (ipTM), antibody-trained and orthogonal to AF2-multimer. For sequence design, use ProteinMPNN; for de novo backbones, use RFantibody, BindCraft, or BoltzGen first.
runtime: <1 min to ~3 min
BoltzGen boltzgen Pick BoltzGen when you want one model that can design mini-proteins, nanobodies, antibodies, or peptides against the same target, or when your target involves glycans, post-translational modifications, or non-canonical residues.
runtime: 15 to 60 min
ColabFold colabfold Pick ColabFold when you need a fast no-MSA fold. 1 to 2 min per run, no MMseqs2 round-trip. Pair with AF2 standalone (D2) when you want full MSA and templates, or with ESMFold (D4) for single-sequence monomers on an even smaller GPU.
runtime: 1 to 2 min
ESMFold esmfold Pick ESMFold when you need the fastest possible monomer fold. No MSA, no multimer, single-sequence ESM-2 language-model prediction. Pair with ColabFold (D3) for multimers or AF2 standalone (D2) for full MSA-backed accuracy.
runtime: 0.5 to 1 min
IgGM iggm Pick IgGM to design or humanize an antibody / nanobody against your antigen, or to predict the antibody-antigen complex, all in one model. For VHH backbones use RFantibody; for paired scFv CDRs use ESMFold2 design; to validate a designed binder's fold use Boltz-2.
runtime: ~2 min to scales with samples x masked positions min
ProteinMPNN mpnn Pick ProteinMPNN when you already have a backbone and need candidate sequences. For de novo backbone generation, use RFantibody, BindCraft, or BoltzGen first and feed the output PDB here.
runtime: 1 min
OpenDDE co-folding opendde Pick OpenDDE to co-fold a mixed complex — protein with DNA, RNA, or a bound ligand in one prediction. For a plain protein-protein or protein-peptide cofold, Boltz-2 is faster and cheaper.
runtime: ~2 to 8 min
Proteina-Complexa proteina Pick Proteina-Complexa when you want de novo binders against a protein OR a small-molecule (ligand) target, scored by a full AF2 / RF3 / force-field reward stack, and you want to scale the search across many GPUs with the wallet as the only ceiling.
runtime: ~9 to 15 min to 1 to 3 min
PXDesign pxdesign Pick PXDesign when AF2 confidence against a defined target matters and you want real ipTM, pLDDT, and pAE on every candidate. For hallucination-driven binder design without AF2 filtering use BindCraft, for antibody and nanobody CDRs use RFantibody, and for target structure generation without binder design use BoltzGen.
runtime: 30 to 60 min
RFantibody rfantibody Pick RFantibody when you need a VHH (nanobody) scaffold against a target PDB. For de novo non-antibody binders, use BindCraft. For designs involving modified residues or glycans, use BoltzGen.
runtime: 15 to 60 min
RFdiffusion rfdiffusion Pick RFdiffusion when you want general de novo binder design scored by AF2 multimer (ipTM, pLDDT, i_pAE). For antibody and nanobody scaffolds use RFantibody, for AF2-IG initial-guess scoring use PXDesign, and for hallucination-driven binders without AF2 filtering use BindCraft.
runtime: 15 to 30 min