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We present a machine learning approach that leverages persistent homology to classify bacterial flagellar motors into two functional states: rotated and stalled. By embedding protein structural data into a topological framework, we extract…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-19 Zakaria Lamine , Abdelatif Hafid , Mohamed Rahouti

We seek to understand the interplay between amino acid sequence and local structure in proteins. Are some amino acids unique in their ability to fit harmoniously into certain local structures? What is the role of sequence in sculpting the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-01-29 Tatjana Škrbić , Amos Maritan , Achille Giacometti , Jayanth R. Banavar

Protein sequences serve as a natural record of the evolutionary constraints that shape their functional structures. We show that it is possible to use only sequence information to go beyond predicting native structures and global stability…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-07-02 Ezequiel A. Galpern , Ernesto A. Roman , Diego U. Ferreiro

Protein folding is one of the age-old biological problems that refers to the mechanism of understanding and predicting how a protein's linear sequence of amino acids folds into its specific three dimensional structure.This structure is…

Computational docking methods can provide structural models of protein-protein complexes, but protein backbone flexibility upon association often thwarts accurate predictions. In recent blind challenges, medium or high accuracy models were…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-12-29 Ameya Harmalkar , Jeffrey J. Gray

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) contains more than 135 000 entries today. From these, relatively few amyloid structures can be identified, since amyloids are insoluble in water. Therefore, mostly solid state NMR-recorded amyloid structures are…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-05-28 Kristof Takacs , Balint Varga , Vince Grolmusz

The unbounded permutations of biological molecules, including proteins and their constituent peptides, presents a dilemma in identifying the components of complex biosamples. Sequence search algorithms used to identify peptide spectra can…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-05-17 Lewis Y. Geer , Joel Lapin , Douglas J. Slotta , Tytus D. Mak , Stephen E. Stein

A new method for the Automated Protein Structure Analysis (APSA) is derived, which simplifies the protein backbone to a smooth curve in 3-dimensional space. For the purpose of obtaining this smooth line each amino acid is represented by its…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2008-11-24 Sushilee Raganathan , Dmitry Izotov , Elfi Kraka , Dieter Cremer

Accurate protein structure prediction from amino-acid sequences is critical to better understanding the protein function. Recent advances in this area largely benefit from more precise inter-residue distance and orientation predictions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jiaxiang Wu , Shitong Luo , Tao Shen , Haidong Lan , Sheng Wang , Junzhou Huang

The design of novel proteins has many applications but remains an attritional process with success in isolated cases. Meanwhile, deep learning technologies have exploded in popularity in recent years and are increasingly applicable to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-07 Joe G Greener , Lewis Moffat , David T Jones

Feature extraction is an unavoidable task, especially in the critical step of preprocessing biological sequences. This step consists for example in transforming the biological sequences into vectors of motifs where each motif is a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-08-24 Rabie Saidi , Sabeur Aridhi , Mondher Maddouri , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo

Protein motifs are conserved fragments occurred frequently in protein sequences. They have significant functions, such as active site of an enzyme. Search and clustering protein sequence motifs are computational intensive. Most existing…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2017-01-03 Haifeng Chen , Ting Chen

Protein structure is central to biological function, and enabling multimodal protein models requires joint reasoning over sequence, structure, and function. A key barrier is the lack of principled protein structure tokenizers (PSTs):…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-03 Michael Sun , Weize Yuan , Gang Liu , Wojciech Matusik , Marinka Zitnik

Proteins perform critical processes in all living systems: converting solar energy into chemical energy, replicating DNA, as the basis of highly performant materials, sensing and much more. While an incredible range of functionality has…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-29 Leonardo V. Castorina , Rokas Petrenas , Kartic Subr , Christopher W. Wood

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

Learning language of protein sequences, which captures non-local interactions between amino acids close in the spatial structure, is a long-standing bioinformatics challenge, which requires at least context-free grammars. However, complex…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Witold Dyrka , François Coste , Juliette Talibart

Geometric deep learning has recently achieved great success in non-Euclidean domains, and learning on 3D structures of large biomolecules is emerging as a distinct research area. However, its efficacy is largely constrained due to the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Fang Wu , Lirong Wu , Dragomir Radev , Jinbo Xu , Stan Z. Li

Deep Learning (DL) algorithms hold great promise for applications in the field of computational biophysics. In fact, the vast amount of available molecular structures, as well as their notable complexity, constitutes an ideal context in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-01-07 Marco Giulini , Raffaello Potestio

Deep learning has deeply influenced protein science, enabling breakthroughs in predicting protein properties, higher-order structures, and molecular interactions. This paper introduces DeepProtein, a comprehensive and user-friendly deep…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Jiaqing Xie , Tianfan Fu