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Protein language models (PLMs) learn probability distributions over natural protein sequences. By learning from hundreds of millions of natural protein sequences, protein understanding and design capabilities emerge. Recent works have shown…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-27 Timothy Fei Truong , Tristan Bepler

Deep neural-network-based language models (LMs) are increasingly applied to large-scale protein sequence data to predict protein function. However, being largely black-box models and thus challenging to interpret, current protein LM…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-06 Mai Ha Vu , Rahmad Akbar , Philippe A. Robert , Bartlomiej Swiatczak , Victor Greiff , Geir Kjetil Sandve , Dag Trygve Truslew Haug

Protein language models (PLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in protein modeling and design, yet their internal mechanisms for predicting structure and function remain poorly understood. Here we present a systematic approach to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-18 Elana Simon , James Zou

We introduce a protein language model for determining the complete sequence of a peptide based on measurement of a limited set of amino acids. To date, protein sequencing relies on mass spectrometry, with some novel edman degregation based…

Sequence set is a widely-used type of data source in a large variety of fields. A typical example is protein structure prediction, which takes an multiple sequence alignment (MSA) as input and aims to infer structural information from it.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-27 Fusong Ju , Jianwei Zhu , Guozheng Wei , Qi Zhang , Shiwei Sun , Dongbo Bu

Proteins, essential to biological systems, perform functions intricately linked to their three-dimensional structures. Understanding the relationship between protein structures and their amino acid sequences remains a core challenge in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-11-04 Liang He , Peiran Jin , Yaosen Min , Shufang Xie , Lijun Wu , Tao Qin , Xiaozhuan Liang , Kaiyuan Gao , Yuliang Jiang , Tie-Yan Liu

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in various natural language processing tasks, including their application to proteomics data to classify protein fragments. In this study, we curated a limited mass spectrometry dataset with…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-28 Taylor A Phillips , Alejandro W. Huskey , Patrick T. Huskey , Seth L. Robia , Peter M. Kekenes-Huskey

Protein language models (PLMs) have demonstrated remarkable capabilities in learning relationships between protein sequences and functions. However, finetuning these large models requires substantial computational resources, often with…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-09 Shuo Zhang , Jian K. Liu

Modern Protein Language Models (PLMs) apply transformer-based model architectures from natural language processing to biological sequences, predicting a variety of protein functions and properties. However, protein language has key…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-25 Anna Hart , Chi Han , Jeonghwan Kim , Huimin Zhao , Heng Ji

Proteins play a pivotal role in biological systems. The use of machine learning algorithms for protein classification can assist and even guide biological experiments, offering crucial insights for biotechnological applications. We…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-24 Yizheng Wang , Yixiao Zhai , Yijie Ding , Quan Zou

Protein language models have excelled in a variety of tasks, ranging from structure prediction to protein engineering. However, proteins are highly diverse in functions and structures, and current state-of-the-art models including the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-27 Chang Ma , Haiteng Zhao , Lin Zheng , Jiayi Xin , Qintong Li , Lijun Wu , Zhihong Deng , Yang Lu , Qi Liu , Lingpeng Kong

Machine learning is widely used to analyze biological sequence data. Non-sequential models such as SVMs or feed-forward neural networks are often used although they have no natural way of handling sequences of varying length. Recurrent…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-14 Søren Kaae Sønderby , Casper Kaae Sønderby , Henrik Nielsen , Ole Winther

Proteins adopt multiple structural conformations to perform their diverse biological functions, and understanding these conformations is crucial for advancing drug discovery. Traditional physics-based simulation methods often struggle with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-14 Jiarui Lu , Xiaoyin Chen , Stephen Zhewen Lu , Chence Shi , Hongyu Guo , Yoshua Bengio , Jian Tang

Proteins are essential macromolecules defined by their amino acid sequences, which determine their three-dimensional structures and, consequently, their functions in all living organisms. Therefore, generative protein modeling necessitates…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-18 Xinyou Wang , Zaixiang Zheng , Fei Ye , Dongyu Xue , Shujian Huang , Quanquan Gu

Protein sequences are abundant in repeating segments, both as exact copies and as approximate segments with mutations. These repeats are important for protein structure and function, motivating decades of algorithmic work on repeat…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-26 Gal Pomerants , Yaniv Nikankin , Anja Reusch , Tomer Tsaban , Ora Schueler-Furman , Yonatan Belinkov

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

The goal of protein representation learning is to extract knowledge from protein databases that can be applied to various protein-related downstream tasks. Although protein sequence, structure, and function are the three key modalities for…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-14 Eunji Ko , Seul Lee , Minseon Kim , Dongki Kim

While protein language models (PLMs) are one of the most promising avenues of research for future de novo protein design, the way in which they transform sequences to hidden representations, as well as the information encoded in such…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Kosio Beshkov , Anders Malthe-Sørenssen

Designing proteins de novo with tailored structural, physicochemical, and functional properties remains a grand challenge in biotechnology, medicine, and materials science, due to the vastness of sequence space and the complex coupling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Fiona Y. Wang , Di Sheng Lee , David L. Kaplan , Markus J. Buehler

This paper demonstrates that language models are strong structure-based protein designers. We present LM-Design, a generic approach to reprogramming sequence-based protein language models (pLMs), that have learned massive sequential…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-02-10 Zaixiang Zheng , Yifan Deng , Dongyu Xue , Yi Zhou , Fei YE , Quanquan Gu