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Detection of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) plays a vital role in molecular biology. Particularly, infections are caused by the interactions of host and pathogen proteins. It is important to identify host-pathogen interactions (HPIs)…

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Protein-ligand interactions (PLIs) are fundamental to biochemical research and their identification is crucial for estimating biophysical and biochemical properties for rational therapeutic design. Currently, experimental characterization…

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Representation learning and \emph{de novo} generation of proteins are pivotal computational biology tasks. Whilst natural language processing (NLP) techniques have proven highly effective for protein sequence modelling, structure modelling…

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Decision-making in complex systems often relies on machine learning models, yet highly accurate models such as XGBoost and neural networks can obscure the reasoning behind their predictions. In operations research applications,…

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Machine-learning models that learn from data to predict how protein sequence encodes function are emerging as a useful protein engineering tool. However, when using these models to suggest new protein designs, one must deal with the vast…

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Protein contacts provide key information for the understanding of protein structure and function, and therefore contact prediction from sequences is an important problem. Recent research shows that some correctly predicted long-range…

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Protein-RNA interactions are of vital importance to a variety of cellular activities. Both experimental and computational techniques have been developed to study the interactions. Due to the limitation of the previous database, especially…

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Predicting which proteins interact together from amino-acid sequences is an important task. We develop a method to pair interacting protein sequences which leverages the power of protein language models trained on multiple sequence…

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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…

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Graphs as a type of data structure have recently attracted significant attention. Representation learning of geometric graphs has achieved great success in many fields including molecular, social, and financial networks. It is natural to…

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Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play a crucial role in numerous biological processes. Developing methods that predict binding affinity changes under substitution mutations is fundamental for modelling and re-engineering biological…

Question Paraphrase Identification (QPI) is a critical task for large-scale Question-Answering forums. The purpose of QPI is to determine whether a given pair of questions are semantically identical or not. Previous approaches for this task…

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Expanding the scope of graph-based, deep-learning models to noncovalent protein-ligand interactions has earned increasing attention in structure-based drug design. Modeling the protein-ligand interactions with graph neural networks (GNNs)…

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Recent advances in Natural Language Processing (NLP) have ignited interest in developing effective methods for predicting protein-ligand interactions (PLIs) given their relevance to drug discovery and protein engineering efforts and the…

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Significant differences in protein structures hinder the generalization of existing drug-target interaction (DTI) models, which often rely heavily on pre-learned binding principles or detailed annotations. In contrast, BioBridge designs an…

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In protein secondary structure prediction, each amino acid in sequence is typically treated as a distinct category and represented by a one-hot vector. In this study, we developed two novel chemical representations for amino acids utilizing…

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With the rise of Transformers and Large Language Models (LLMs) in Chemistry and Biology, new avenues for the design and understanding of therapeutics have opened up to the scientific community. Protein sequences can be modeled as language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-11-01 Seongwon Kim , Parisa Mollaei , Akshay Antony , Rishikesh Magar , Amir Barati Farimani

Deep neural networks, particularly Transformers, have been widely adopted for predicting the functional properties of proteins. In this work, we focus on exploring whether Protein Transformers can capture biological intelligence among…

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