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Proteins are essential to life's processes, underpinning evolution and diversity. Advances in sequencing technology have revealed millions of proteins, underscoring the need for sophisticated pre-trained protein models for biological…

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Protein language models have shown remarkable success in learning biological information from protein sequences. However, most existing models are limited by either autoencoding or autoregressive pre-training objectives, which makes them…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-10 Bo Chen , Xingyi Cheng , Pan Li , Yangli-ao Geng , Jing Gong , Shen Li , Zhilei Bei , Xu Tan , Boyan Wang , Xin Zeng , Chiming Liu , Aohan Zeng , Yuxiao Dong , Jie Tang , Le Song

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

Protein design aims to compose amino-acid sequences that fold into stable three-dimensional structures while satisfying targeted functional properties. The field is increasingly shifting toward vibe protein design, where a single model is…

Proteins are essential for maintaining life. For example, knowing the structure of a protein, cell regulatory mechanisms of organisms can be modeled, supporting the development of disease treatments or the understanding of relationships…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-01-07 Daniel Bonetti , Alexandre Delbem , Dorival Leão , Jochen Einbeck

Accurately predicting protein melting temperature changes (Delta Tm) is fundamental for assessing protein stability and guiding protein engineering. Leveraging multi-modal protein representations has shown great promise in capturing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Daiheng Zhang , Yan Zeng , Xinyu Hong , Jinbo Xu

Predicting protein function from amino acid sequence remains a central challenge in data-scarce (low-$N$) regimes, limiting machine learning-guided protein design when only small amounts of assay-labeled sequence-function data are…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Darin Tsui , Kunal Talreja , Amirali Aghazadeh

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

Representation learning for protein biochemical space faces a difficult trade-off: protein language models excel at capturing long-range biological semantics but often miss fine-grained chemical details. Conversely, chemical language models…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-03 Chunbin Gu , Zijun Gao , Mutian He , Jingjie Zhang , Haipeng Wen , Zihao Luo , Xiaorui Wang , Hanqun Cao , Jiajun Bu , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Pheng Ann Heng

Modeling biological sequences such as DNA, RNA, and proteins is crucial for understanding complex processes like gene regulation and protein synthesis. However, most current models either focus on a single type or treat multiple types of…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-16 Weixi Xiang , Xueting Han , Xiujuan Chai , Jing Bai

This paper aims to retrieve proteins with similar structures and semantics from large-scale protein dataset, facilitating the functional interpretation of protein structures derived by structural determination methods like cryo-Electron…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-11 Qifeng Wu , Zhengzhe Liu , Han Zhu , Yizhou Zhao , Daisuke Kihara , Min Xu

Deep learning has transformed protein design, enabling accurate structure prediction, sequence optimization, and de novo protein generation. Advances in single-chain protein structure prediction via AlphaFold2, RoseTTAFold, ESMFold, and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-02-27 Gregory W. Kyro , Tianyin Qiu , Victor S. Batista

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

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

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

Neural language models have become powerful tools for learning complex representations of entities in natural language processing tasks. However, their interpretability remains a significant challenge, particularly in domains like…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-12-19 Divya Nori , Shivali Singireddy , Marina Ten Have

Accurate prediction of enzymatic activity from amino acid sequences could drastically accelerate enzyme engineering for applications such as bioremediation and therapeutics development. In recent years, Protein Language Model (PLM)…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-07 Duncan F. Muir , Parker Grosjean , Margaux M. Pinney , Michael J. Keiser

Designing de novo proteins beyond those found in nature holds significant promise for advancements in both scientific and engineering applications. Current methodologies for protein design often rely on AI-based models, such as surrogate…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-02-08 A. Ghafarollahi , M. J. Buehler

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

Multimodal protein language models deliver strong performance on mutation-effect prediction, but training such models from scratch demands substantial computational resources. In this paper, we propose a fine-tuning framework called…

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