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The prediction of protein structures from sequences is an important task for function prediction, drug design, and related biological processes understanding. Recent advances have proved the power of language models (LMs) in processing the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-01 Bozhen Hu , Jun Xia , Jiangbin Zheng , Cheng Tan , Yufei Huang , Yongjie Xu , Stan Z. Li

Protein language models (pLMs) pre-trained on vast protein sequence databases excel at various downstream tasks but often lack the structural knowledge essential for some biological applications. To address this, we introduce a method to…

Protein language models are a powerful tool for learning protein representations through pre-training on vast protein sequence datasets. However, traditional protein language models lack explicit structural supervision, despite its…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-09 Zuobai Zhang , Jiarui Lu , Vijil Chenthamarakshan , Aurélie Lozano , Payel Das , Jian Tang

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

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

Protein is linked to almost every life process. Therefore, analyzing the biological structure and property of protein sequences is critical to the exploration of life, as well as disease detection and drug discovery. Traditional protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-12-08 Yijia Xiao , Jiezhong Qiu , Ziang Li , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Jie Tang

Protein representation learning methods have shown great potential to yield useful representation for many downstream tasks, especially on protein classification. Moreover, a few recent studies have shown great promise in addressing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 Can Chen , Jingbo Zhou , Fan Wang , Xue Liu , Dejing Dou

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

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

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, 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

Understanding protein sequences is vital and urgent for biology, healthcare, and medicine. Labeling approaches are expensive yet time-consuming, while the amount of unlabeled data is increasing quite faster than that of the labeled data due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Liang He , Shizhuo Zhang , Lijun Wu , Huanhuan Xia , Fusong Ju , He Zhang , Siyuan Liu , Yingce Xia , Jianwei Zhu , Pan Deng , Bin Shao , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

The parallels between protein sequences and natural language in their sequential structures have inspired the application of large language models (LLMs) to protein understanding. Despite the success of LLMs in NLP, their effectiveness in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-09 Yiqing Shen , Zan Chen , Michail Mamalakis , Luhan He , Haiyang Xia , Tianbin Li , Yanzhou Su , Junjun He , Yu Guang Wang

The impact of Transformer-based language models has been unprecedented in Natural Language Processing (NLP). The success of such models has also led to their adoption in other fields including bioinformatics. Taking this into account, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Nimisha Ghosh , Daniele Santoni , Debaleena Nawn , Eleonora Ottaviani , Giovanni Felici

Proteins inherently possess a consistent sequence-structure duality. The abundance of protein sequence data, which can be readily represented as discrete tokens, has driven fruitful developments in protein language models (pLMs). A key…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2026-05-29 Yi Zhou , Haohao Qu , Yunqing Liu , Shanru Lin , Le Song , Wenqi Fan

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a standard approach for adapting large language models to specialized domains, yet its application to protein sequence modeling and protein language models (PLMs) remains ad hoc. This is in part because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Amin Tavakoli , Raswanth Murugan , Ozan Gokdemir , Arvind Ramanathan , Frances Arnold , Anima Anandkumar

Current protein language models (PLMs) learn protein representations mainly based on their sequences, thereby well capturing co-evolutionary information, but they are unable to explicitly acquire protein functions, which is the end goal of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-06 Minghao Xu , Xinyu Yuan , Santiago Miret , Jian Tang

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

Protein language models (PLMs) have shown promise in improving the understanding of protein sequences, contributing to advances in areas such as function prediction and protein engineering. However, training these models from scratch…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-19 Shivasankaran Vanaja Pandi , Bharath Ramsundar

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are fundamental to numerous cellular processes, and their characterization is vital for understanding disease mechanisms and guiding drug discovery. While protein language models (PLMs) have demonstrated…

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