English
Related papers

Related papers: Prot2Text: Multimodal Protein's Function Generatio…

200 papers

Understanding the intricate interplay among sequence, structure, and function remains a fundamental challenge in proteomics. The sequence-structure-function paradigm posits that biological roles are governed by the tertiary geometric…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-14 Hongwang Xiao , Wenjun Lin , Xi Chen , Hui Wang , Kai Chen , Jiashan Li , Yuancheng Sun , Sicheng Dai , Boya Wu , Qiwei Ye

Large Language Models (LLMs) have revolutionized the field of natural language processing, but they fall short in comprehending biological sequences such as proteins. To address this challenge, we propose InstructProtein, an innovative LLM…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-06 Zeyuan Wang , Qiang Zhang , Keyan Ding , Ming Qin , Xiang Zhuang , Xiaotong Li , Huajun Chen

Protein function prediction is a crucial task in bioinformatics, with significant implications for understanding biological processes and disease mechanisms. While the relationship between sequence and function has been extensively…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-04 Shania Mitra , Lei Huang , Manolis Kellis

Multimodal protein features play a crucial role in protein function prediction. However, these features encompass a wide range of information, ranging from structural data and sequence features to protein attributes and interaction…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-11-07 Xiaoling Luo , Peng Chen , Chengliang Liu , Xiaopeng Jin , Jie Wen , Yumeng Liu , Junsong Wang

Studying the function of proteins is important for understanding the molecular mechanisms of life. The number of publicly available protein structures has increasingly become extremely large. Still, the determination of the function of a…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Wajdi Dhifli , Abdoulaye Baniré Diallo

We introduce ProteinWorkshop, a comprehensive benchmark suite for representation learning on protein structures with Geometric Graph Neural Networks. We consider large-scale pre-training and downstream tasks on both experimental and…

We propose an effective method to improve Protein Function Prediction (PFP) utilizing hierarchical features of Gene Ontology (GO) terms. Our method consists of a language model for encoding the protein sequence and a Graph Convolutional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Kyudam Choi , Yurim Lee , Cheongwon Kim , Minsung Yoon

The recent advancement of pre-trained Transformer models has propelled the development of effective text mining models across various biomedical tasks. However, these models are primarily learned on the textual data and often lack the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-07-02 Sriram Pingali , Shweta Yadav , Pratik Dutta , Sriparna Saha

Recent advances in protein function prediction exploit graph-based deep learning approaches to correlate the structural and topological features of proteins with their molecular functions. However, proteins in vivo are not static but…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-11-22 Yuan Chiang , Wei-Han Hui , Shu-Wei Chang

Protein function prediction may be framed as predicting subgraphs (with certain closure properties) of a directed acyclic graph describing the hierarchy of protein functions. Graph neural networks (GNNs), with their built-in inductive bias…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-08-07 Stefan Spalević , Petar Veličković , Jovana Kovačević , Mladen Nikolić

Systematic identification of protein function is a key problem in current biology. Most traditional methods fail to identify functionally equivalent proteins if they lack similar sequences, structural data or extensive manual annotations.…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-08 Dan Ofer

In contrast to their remarkable performance on general knowledge QA, the true abilities of Large Language Models (LLMs) in tasks demanding deep, specialized reasoning, such as in protein biology, have yet to be thoroughly investigated.…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-12-30 Dingyi Rong , Zijian Chen , Qi Jia , Kaiwei Zhang , Haotian Lu , Guangtao Zhai , Ning Liu

Learning effective protein representations is critical in a variety of tasks in biology such as predicting protein functions. Recent sequence representation learning methods based on Protein Language Models (PLMs) excel in sequence-based…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-19 Zuobai Zhang , Chuanrui Wang , Minghao Xu , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Aurélie Lozano , Payel Das , Jian Tang

Proteins play a vital role in biological processes and are indispensable for living organisms. Accurate representation of proteins is crucial, especially in drug development. Recently, there has been a notable increase in interest in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-28 Dan Kalifa , Uriel Singer , Kira Radinsky

Large Language Models (LLMs) have demonstrated exceptional proficiency in text understanding and embedding tasks. However, their potential in multimodal representation, particularly for item-to-item (I2I) recommendations, remains…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Chao Zhang , Haoxin Zhang , Shiwei Wu , Di Wu , Tong Xu , Xiangyu Zhao , Yan Gao , Yao Hu , Enhong Chen

Protein research is crucial in various fundamental disciplines, but understanding their intricate structure-function relationships remains challenging. Recent Large Language Models (LLMs) have made significant strides in comprehending…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-01-24 Chao Wang , Hehe Fan , Ruijie Quan , Yi Yang

Predicting gene function from its DNA sequence is a fundamental challenge in biology. Many deep learning models have been proposed to embed DNA sequences and predict their enzymatic function, leveraging information in public databases…

Protein function prediction is a pivotal task in drug discovery, significantly impacting the development of effective and safe therapeutics. Traditional machine learning models often struggle with the complexity and variability inherent in…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-09-24 Bohao Xu , Yingzhou Lu , Yoshitaka Inoue , Namkyeong Lee , Tianfan Fu , Jintai Chen

Protein function prediction is currently achieved by encoding its sequence or structure, where the sequence-to-function transcendence and high-quality structural data scarcity lead to obvious performance bottlenecks. Protein domains are…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-03 Mingqing Wang , Zhiwei Nie , Yonghong He , Athanasios V. Vasilakos , Zhixiang Ren

Protein language models (PLMs) have emerged as powerful tools to detect complex patterns of protein sequences. However, the capability of PLMs to fully capture information on protein sequences might be limited by focusing on single…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-27 Hazem Alsamkary , Mohamed Elshaffei , Mohamed Elkerdawy , Ahmed Elnaggar