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Determining the different conformational states of a protein and the transition paths between them is key to fully understanding the relationship between biomolecular structure and function. This can be accomplished by sampling protein…

Biological Physics · Physics 2021-03-24 Venkata K. Ramaswamy , Chris G. Willcocks , Matteo T. Degiacomi

Proteins are sequences of amino acids that serve as the basic building blocks of living organisms. Despite rapidly growing databases documenting structural and functional information for various protein sequences, our understanding of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-01-06 Weihang Dai

Proteins are central to biological systems, participating as building blocks across all forms of life. Despite advancements in understanding protein functions through protein sequence analysis, there remains potential for further…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-29 Yunqing Liu , Wenqi Fan , Xiaoyong Wei , Qing Li

Natural protein sequences somehow encode the structural forms that these molecules adopt. Recent developments in structure-prediction are agnostic to the mechanisms by which proteins fold and represent them as static objects. However, the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-26 Ezequiel A. Galpern , Federico Caamaño , Diego U. Ferreiro

The analysis of the three-dimensional structure of proteins is an important topic in molecular biochemistry. Structure plays a critical role in defining the function of proteins and is more strongly conserved than amino acid sequence over…

Applications · Statistics 2015-01-19 Abel Rodriguez , Scott C. Schmidler

Proteins are fundamental biological entities that play a key role in life activities. The amino acid sequences of proteins can be folded into stable 3D structures in the real physicochemical world, forming a special kind of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Lirong Wu , Yufei Huang , Haitao Lin , Stan Z. Li

Predicting the structure of multi-protein complexes is a grand challenge in biochemistry, with major implications for basic science and drug discovery. Computational structure prediction methods generally leverage pre-defined structural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-26 Stephan Eismann , Raphael J. L. Townshend , Nathaniel Thomas , Milind Jagota , Bowen Jing , Ron O. Dror

Protein structure tokenization converts 3D structures into discrete or vectorized representations, enabling the integration of structural and sequence data. Despite many recent works on structure tokenization, the properties of the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-14 Zijing Liu , Bin Feng , He Cao , Yu Li

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are essentials for many biological processes where two or more proteins physically bind together to achieve their functions. Modeling PPIs is useful for many biomedical applications, such as vaccine…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-10 Yang Xue , Zijing Liu , Xiaomin Fang , Fan Wang

With the exponential increase of the protein sequence databases over time, multiple-sequence alignment (MSA) methods, like PSI-BLAST, perform exhaustive and time-consuming database search to retrieve evolutionary information. The resulting…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-21 Issar Arab

Learning from 3D protein structures has gained wide interest in protein modeling and structural bioinformatics. Unfortunately, the number of available structures is orders of magnitude lower than the training data sizes commonly used in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-01 Pedro Hermosilla , Timo Ropinski

Protein representation learning methods have shown great potential to yield useful representation for many downstream tasks, especially on protein classification. Moreover, a few recent studies have shown great promise in addressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Can Chen , Jingbo Zhou , Fan Wang , Xue Liu , Dejing Dou

In this work, we study whether enforcing strict compositional structure in sequence embeddings yields meaningful geometric organization when applied to protein-protein interaction networks. Using Event2Vec, an additive sequence embedding…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-02 Antonin Sulc

Current Large Language Models (LLMs) for understanding proteins primarily treats amino acid sequences as a text modality. Meanwhile, Protein Language Models (PLMs), such as ESM-2, have learned massive sequential evolutionary knowledge from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Nuowei Liu , Changzhi Sun , Tao Ji , Junfeng Tian , Jianxin Tang , Yuanbin Wu , Man Lan

Understanding the relationships between protein sequence, structure and function is a long-standing biological challenge with manifold implications from drug design to our understanding of evolution. Recently, protein language models have…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-01-29 Dexiong Chen , Philip Hartout , Paolo Pellizzoni , Carlos Oliver , Karsten Borgwardt

The evolutionary trajectory of a protein through sequence space is constrained by function and three-dimensional (3D) structure. Residues in spatial proximity tend to co-evolve, yet attempts to invert the evolutionary record to identify…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-13 Debora S. Marks , Lucy J. Colwell , Robert Sheridan , Thomas A. Hopf , Andrea Pagnani , Riccardo Zecchina , Chris Sander

The Gene or DNA sequence in every cell does not control genetic properties on its own; Rather, this is done through translation of DNA into protein and subsequent formation of a certain 3D structure. The biological function of a protein is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Leila Khalatbari , Mohammad Reza Kangavari , Saeid Hosseini , Hongzhi Yin , Ngai-Man Cheung

The idea of this project is to study the protein structure and sequence relationship using the hidden markov model and artificial neural network. In this context we have assumed two hidden markov models. In first model we have taken protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2012-06-18 Saurabh Sarkar , Prateek Malhotra , Virender Guman

In this paper, we address the problem of identifying protein functionality using the information contained in its aminoacid sequence. We propose a method to define sequence similarity relationships that can be used as input for…

Applications · Statistics 2007-11-12 A. G. Flesia , R. Fraiman , F. G. Leonardi

In this work we present a system based on a Deep Learning approach, by using a Convolutional Neural Network, capable of classifying protein chains of amino acids based on the protein description contained in the Protein Data Bank. Each…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Damiano Perri , Marco Simonetti , Andrea Lombardi , Noelia Faginas-Lago , Osvaldo Gervasi