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Protein function is driven by cohesive substructures, such as catalytic triads, binding pockets, and structural motifs, that occupy only a small fraction of a protein's residues. Yet existing pipelines built on protein encoders do not model…

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Protein-protein interactions are of great importance in biochemical processes. Accurate prediction of protein-protein interaction sites (PPIs) is crucial for our understanding of biological mechanism. Although numerous approaches have been…

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Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-06-02 Justin Diamond , Markus Lill

While many good textbooks are available on Protein Structure, Molecular Simulations, Thermodynamics and Bioinformatics methods in general, there is no good introductory level book for the field of Structural Bioinformatics. This book aims…