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As proteins with similar structures often have similar functions, analysis of protein structures can help predict protein functions and is thus important. We consider the problem of protein structure classification, which computationally…

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Although machine learning has transformed protein structure prediction of folded protein ground states with remarkable accuracy, intrinsically disordered proteins and regions (IDPs/IDRs) are defined by diverse and dynamical structural…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-01 Oufan Zhang , Zi Hao Liu , Julie D Forman-Kay , Teresa Head-Gordon

The capability of accurate prediction of protein functions and properties is essential in the biotechnology industry, e.g. drug development and artificial protein synthesis, etc. The main challenges of protein function prediction are the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2021-12-02 Wei-Cheng Tseng , Po-Han Chi , Jia-Hua Wu , Min Sun

Recently, neural models for information retrieval are becoming increasingly popular. They provide effective approaches for product search due to their competitive advantages in semantic matching. However, it is challenging to use…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2019-01-25 Yuan Zhang , Dong Wang , Yan Zhang

Deep learning has become a crucial tool in studying proteins. While the significance of modeling protein structure has been discussed extensively in the literature, amino acid types are typically included in the input as a default operation…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-01 Yang Tan , Lirong Zheng , Bozitao Zhong , Liang Hong , Bingxin Zhou

One of the most powerful techniques to study protein structures is to look for recurrent fragments (also called substructures or spatial motifs), then use them as patterns to characterize the proteins under study. An emergent trend consists…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2018-03-02 Wajdi Dhifli , Rabie Saidi , Engelbert Mephu Nguifo

Protein structure similarity search (PSSS), which tries to search proteins with similar structures, plays a crucial role across diverse domains from drug design to protein function prediction and molecular evolution. Traditional…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-11-14 Jin Han , Wu-Jun Li

Recent computational advances in the accurate prediction of protein three-dimensional (3D) structures from amino acid sequences now present a unique opportunity to decipher the interrelationships between proteins. This task entails--but is…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-19 Menuka Jaiswal , Saad Saleem , Yonghyeon Kweon , Eli J Draizen , Stella Veretnik , Cameron Mura , Philip E. Bourne

Learning effective protein representations is critical in a variety of tasks in biology such as predicting protein function or structure. Existing approaches usually pretrain protein language models on a large number of unlabeled amino acid…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-31 Zuobai Zhang , Minghao Xu , Arian Jamasb , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Aurelie Lozano , Payel Das , Jian Tang

The protein design problem involves finding polypeptide sequences folding into a given threedimensional structure. Its rigorous algorithmic solution is computationally demanding, involving a nested search in sequence and structure spaces.…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-07-11 Veronica Panizza , Philipp Hauke , Cristian Micheletti , Pietro Faccioli

Classifying protein topology is essential for deciphering biological function, but progress is held back by the lack of large-scale benchmarks that avoid duplicates and by models that do not scale well. We introduce TEDBench, a large-scale,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-19 Dexiong Chen , Andrei Manolache , Mathias Niepert , Karsten Borgwardt

Protein contacts contain important information for protein structure and functional study, but contact prediction from sequence information remains very challenging. Recently evolutionary coupling (EC) analysis, which predicts contacts by…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2015-12-01 Siqi Sun , Jianzhu Ma , Sheng Wang , Jinbo Xu

This paper presents a new, parallel implementation of clustering and demonstrates its utility in greatly speeding up the process of identifying homologous proteins. Clustering is a technique to reduce the number of comparison needed to find…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2019-08-29 Stuart Byma , Akash Dhasade , Adrian Altenhoff , Christophe Dessimoz , James R. Larus

A variety of methods have been proposed for structure similarity calculation, which are called structure alignment or superposition. One major shortcoming in current structure alignment algorithms is in their inherent design, which is based…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2013-07-31 Xuefeng Cui , Shuai Cheng Li , Dongbo Bu , Ming Li

Protein representation learning plays a crucial role in understanding the structure and function of proteins, which are essential biomolecules involved in various biological processes. In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-11 Bozhen Hu , Cheng Tan , Lirong Wu , Jiangbin Zheng , Jun Xia , Zhangyang Gao , Zicheng Liu , Fandi Wu , Guijun Zhang , Stan Z. Li

Identifying trendline visualizations with desired patterns is a common and fundamental data exploration task. Existing visual analytics tools offer limited flexibility and expressiveness for such tasks, especially when the pattern of…

Databases · Computer Science 2020-01-31 Tarique Siddiqui , Zesheng Wang , Paul Luh , Karrie Karahalios , Aditya Parameswaran

Protein representation learning is critical for numerous biological tasks. Recently, large transformer-based protein language models (pLMs) pretrained on large scale protein sequences have demonstrated significant success in sequence-based…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-12 Xuefeng Liu , Songhao Jiang , Chih-chan Tien , Jinbo Xu , Rick Stevens

Due to the advancements in technology number of entries in the structural database of proteins are increasing day by day. Methods for retrieving protein tertiary structures from this large database is the key to comparative analysis of…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2014-09-03 Rezaul Karim , Mohd. Momin Al Aziz , Swakkhar Shatabda , M. Sohel Rahman , Md. Abul Kashem Mia , Farhana Zaman , Salman Rakin

As the size of accessible compound libraries expands to over 10 billion, the need for more efficient structure-based virtual screening methods is emerging. Different pre-screening methods have been developed for rapid screening, but there…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-07 Seonghwan Seo , Woo Youn Kim

Machine- and deep-learning approaches for biological sequences depend critically on transforming raw DNA, RNA, and protein FASTA files into informative numerical representations. However, this process is often fragmented across multiple…

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