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Published as a conference paper at NeurIPS 2026

CPSea2: Composing Terminal Geometries for Structurally Diverse Cyclic Peptide Binder Design

Ziyi Yang, Yinjun Jia, Guiyu Deng, Jiqing Zheng, Tianyi Zhang, Ziting Zhang, Kai Liu, Lei Liu, Yanyan Lan

Abstract

Cyclic peptides are attractive next-generation therapeutics. In drug discovery, diverse ring-closing chemistries are applied to tune synthetic accessibility and conformational constraints. Current machine learning methods represent cyclization through modified positional encodings, covalent-bond prompts in all-atom models, residue-level distance guidance, or direct terminal closure by molecular mechanics (MM). These approximations provide limited control over the raw geometry, especially for non-natural linkers, and often yield unreliable structures. Here, we introduce **CPSea2**, a composable framework that abstracts cyclization as terminal-amide geometry constraints. We construct **CPSea2-Cap** (**CPcap**), a conformer library covering eight cyclization types, and **CPSea2-Base** (**CPbase**), a large-scale dataset of nearly 900 million mined linear peptide–protein complexes. Matching terminal-amides between CPcap and CPbase directly derives cyclic peptide–protein complexes with diverse terminal topologies. Built on CPbase, **PepAny** generates target-conditioned peptide binders with controllable terminal-amide geometry, expanding the accessible space beyond mined structures. Multi-target evaluations show improved raw-output plausibility over bond-prompted and distance-guided baselines. CPSea2 provides a novel framework and data foundation for flexible and diverse cyclic peptide binder design. Datasets and codes are available at https://anonymous.4open.science/r/CPSea2-6CF5/.

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