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Designing protein sequences that fold into a target 3-D structure, termed as the inverse folding problem, is central to protein engineering. However, it remains challenging due to the vast sequence space and the importance of local…

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Retrieving homologous protein sequences is essential for a broad range of protein modeling tasks such as fitness prediction, protein design, structure modeling, and protein-protein interactions. Traditional workflows have relied on a…

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The genome-scale metabolic model with protein constraint (PC-model) has been increasingly popular for microbial metabolic simulations. We present PROSO Toolbox, a unified and simple-to-use PC-model toolbox that takes any high-quality…

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Predicting protein properties, functions and localizations are important tasks in bioinformatics. Recent progress in machine learning offers an opportunities for improving existing methods. We developed a new approach called ProtBoost,…

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Large language models have made remarkable progress in the field of molecular science, particularly in understanding and generating functional small molecules. This success is largely attributed to the effectiveness of molecular…

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Despite the success of deep learning in dermoscopy image analysis, its inherent black-box nature hinders clinical trust, motivating the use of prototypical networks for case-based visual transparency. However, inevitable selection bias in…

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Recent advances in Protein Language Models (PLMs) have transformed protein engineering, yet unlike their counterparts in Natural Language Processing (NLP), current PLMs exhibit a fundamental limitation: they excel in either Protein Language…

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Predictive models in biomedicine depend on structured assay data locked in the text, tables, and supplements of primary publications. This bottleneck is especially acute in targeted protein degradation (TPD), where each assay record must…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-13 Yaochen Rao , Farzaneh Jalalypour , N. M. Anoop Krishnan , Rocío Mercado

Prokaryotic gene prediction plays an important role in understanding the biology of organisms and their function with applications in medicine and biotechnology. Although the current gene finders are highly sensitive in finding long genes,…

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The growing need for accurate and efficient 3D identification of tumors, particularly in liver segmentation, has spurred considerable research into deep learning models. While many existing architectures offer strong performance, they often…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2024-12-30 Bhavesh Gyanchandani , Aditya Oza , Abhinav Roy

The ability to computationally generate novel yet physically foldable protein structures could lead to new biological discoveries and new treatments targeting yet incurable diseases. Despite recent advances in protein structure prediction,…

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Structural prediction of protein-protein interactions is important to understand the molecular basis of cellular interactions, but it still faces major challenges when significant conformational changes are present. We propose a generative…

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The recent breakthrough of AlphaFold3 in modeling complex biomolecular interactions, including those between proteins and ligands, nucleotides, or metal ions, creates new opportunities for protein design. In so-called inverse protein…

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Accurately finding proteins and genes that have a certain function is the prerequisite for a broad range of biomedical applications. Despite the encouraging progress of existing computational approaches in protein function prediction, it…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-22 Hanwen Xu , Sheng Wang

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…

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Due to the highly complex chemical structure of biomolecules, the extensive understanding of the electronic information for proteomics can be challenging. Here, we constructed a charge transfer database at residue level derived from…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2019-04-05 Fang Liu , Hongwei Wang , Dongju Zhang , Likai Du

Proteins are essential for life, and their structure determines their function. The protein secondary structure is formed by the folding of the protein primary structure, and the protein tertiary structure is formed by the bending and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-11 Yanlin Zhou , Kai Tan , Xinyu Shen , Zheng He , Haotian Zheng

Motivation: With the development of third-generation sequencing technologies, people are able to obtain DNA sequences with lengths from 10s to 100s of kb. These long reads allow protein domain annotation without assembly, thus can produce…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2021-07-09 Du Nan , Jiayu Shang , Yanni Sun

Multi-modality pre-training paradigm that aligns protein sequences and biological descriptions has learned general protein representations and achieved promising performance in various downstream applications. However, these works were…

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