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Composed of amino acid chains that influence how they fold and thus dictating their function and features, proteins are a class of macromolecules that play a central role in major biological processes and are required for the structure,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-07-15 Aaron Wang

Pre-trained LLMs have demonstrated substantial capabilities across a range of conventional natural language processing (NLP) tasks, such as summarization and entity recognition. In this paper, we explore the application of LLMs in the…

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Protein language models (pLMs), pre-trained via causal language modeling on protein sequences, have been a promising tool for protein sequence design. In real-world protein engineering, there are many cases where the amino acids in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Youhan Lee , Hasun Yu

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 language models (PLMs) have revolutionised computational biology through their ability to generate powerful sequence representations for diverse prediction tasks. However, their black-box nature limits biological interpretation and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-11 Jan van Eck , Dea Gogishvili , Wilson Silva , Sanne Abeln

Self-supervised training of language models (LMs) has seen great success for protein sequences in learning meaningful representations and for generative drug design. Most protein LMs are based on the Transformer architecture trained on…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-03 Yingheng Wang , Zichen Wang , Gil Sadeh , Luca Zancato , Alessandro Achille , George Karypis , Huzefa Rangwala

Proteins are shaped by gradual evolution under biophysical and functional constraints. Protein language models learn rich evolutionary constraints from large-scale sequences, and discrete diffusion-based protein language models~(\eg, DPLMs)…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Xinyou Wang , Liang Hong , Jiasheng Ye , Zaixiang Zheng , Yu Li , Shujian Huang , Quanquan Gu

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

There is considerable interest in predicting the pathogenicity of protein variants in human genes. Due to the sparsity of high quality labels, recent approaches turn to \textit{unsupervised} learning, using Multiple Sequence Alignments…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-12-09 Allan Zhou , Nicholas C. Landolfi , Daniel C. O'Neill

Understanding the structural and functional characteristics of proteins are crucial for developing preventative and curative strategies that impact fields from drug discovery to policy development. An important and popular technique for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Sarwan Ali , Taslim Murad , Prakash Chourasia , Haris Mansoor , Imdad Ullah Khan , Pin-Yu Chen , Murray Patterson

Protein-specific large language models (Protein LLMs) are revolutionizing protein science by enabling more efficient protein structure prediction, function annotation, and design. While existing surveys focus on specific aspects or…

Understanding biological processes, drug development, and biotechnological advancements requires a detailed analysis of protein structures and functions, a task that is inherently complex and time-consuming in traditional protein research.…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-04-21 Yijia Xiao , Edward Sun , Yiqiao Jin , Qifan Wang , Wei Wang

In recent years, protein-text models have gained significant attention for their potential in protein generation and understanding. Current approaches focus on integrating protein-related knowledge into large language models through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Juntong Wu , Zijing Liu , He Cao , Hao Li , Bin Feng , Zishan Shu , Ke Yu , Li Yuan , Yu Li

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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-30 Umberto Lupo , Damiano Sgarbossa , Anne-Florence Bitbol

Fine-tuning Pre-trained protein language models (PLMs) has emerged as a prominent strategy for enhancing downstream prediction tasks, often outperforming traditional supervised learning approaches. As a widely applied powerful technique in…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2024-04-24 Yang Tan , Mingchen Li , Bingxin Zhou , Bozitao Zhong , Lirong Zheng , Pan Tan , Ziyi Zhou , Huiqun Yu , Guisheng Fan , Liang Hong

We theorize that phylogenetic profiles provide a quantitative method that can relate the structural and functional properties of proteins, as well as their evolutionary relationships. A key feature of phylogenetic profiles is the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-04 Yoojin Hong , Jaewoo Kang , Dongwon Lee , Randen L. Patterson , Damian B. van Rossum

Predicting protein stability changes induced by single-point mutations has been a persistent challenge over the years, attracting immense interest from numerous researchers. The ability to precisely predict protein thermostability is…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-12-08 Yijie Zhang , Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Stan Z. Li

Self-supervised neural language models with attention have recently been applied to biological sequence data, advancing structure, function and mutational effect prediction. Some protein language models, including MSA Transformer and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-10-25 Umberto Lupo , Damiano Sgarbossa , Anne-Florence Bitbol

Protein Language Models (PLMs), pre-trained on extensive evolutionary data from natural proteins, have emerged as indispensable tools for protein design. While powerful, PLMs often struggle to produce proteins with precisely specified…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-15 Long-Kai Huang , Rongyi Zhu , Bing He , Jianhua Yao

Considering the significance of proteins, computational protein science has always been a critical scientific field, dedicated to revealing knowledge and developing applications within the protein sequence-structure-function paradigm. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Wenqi Fan , Yi Zhou , Shijie Wang , Yuyao Yan , Hui Liu , Qian Zhao , Le Song , Qing Li