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Studying the function of proteins is important for understanding the molecular mechanisms of life. The number of publicly available protein structures has increasingly become extremely large. Still, the determination of the function of a…

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Generative modeling has become a central paradigm in protein research, extending machine learning beyond structure prediction toward sequence design, backbone generation, inverse folding, and biomolecular interaction modeling. However, the…

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As protein informatics advances rapidly, the demand for enhanced predictive accuracy, structural analysis, and functional understanding has intensified. Transformer models, as powerful deep learning architectures, have demonstrated…

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With the development of next generation sequencing techniques, it is fast and cheap to determine protein sequences but relatively slow and expensive to extract useful information from protein sequences because of limitations of traditional…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-10-20 Renzhi Cao , Colton Freitas , Leong Chan , Miao Sun , Haiqing Jiang , Zhangxin Chen

Protein structure prediction is pivotal for understanding the structure-function relationship of proteins, advancing biological research, and facilitating pharmaceutical development and experimental design. While deep learning methods and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-12-30 Kaihui Cheng , Ce Liu , Qingkun Su , Jun Wang , Liwei Zhang , Yining Tang , Yao Yao , Siyu Zhu , Yuan Qi

The goal of protein representation learning is to extract knowledge from protein databases that can be applied to various protein-related downstream tasks. Although protein sequence, structure, and function are the three key modalities for…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-14 Eunji Ko , Seul Lee , Minseon Kim , Dongki Kim

The determination of protein functions is one of the most challenging problems of the post-genomic era. The sequencing of entire genomes and the possibility to access gene's co-expression patterns has moved the attention from the study of…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Vazquez , A. Flammini , A. Maritan , A. Vespignani

Automatic protein function prediction (AFP) is classified as a large-scale multi-label classification problem aimed at automating protein enrichment analysis to eliminate the current reliance on labor-intensive wet-lab methods. Currently,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-07-26 Zihao Li , Changkun Jiang , Jianqiang Li

Proteins carry out biological functions through the coordinated action of groups of residues organized into structural arrangements. These arrangements, which we refer to as protein units, exist at an intermediate scale, being larger than…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-17 Gökçe Uludoğan , Buse Giledereli , Elif Ozkirimli , Arzucan Özgür

Understanding the dynamic nature of protein structures is essential for comprehending their biological functions. While significant progress has been made in predicting static folded structures, modeling protein motions on microsecond to…

The biological functions of proteins often depend on dynamic structural ensembles. In this work, we develop a flow-based generative modeling approach for learning and sampling the conformational landscapes of proteins. We repurpose highly…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-04 Bowen Jing , Bonnie Berger , Tommi Jaakkola

Predicting protein function from sequence is a central challenge in computational biology. While existing methods rely heavily on structured ontologies or similarity-based techniques, they often lack the flexibility to express…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Xiao Fei , Michail Chatzianastasis , Sarah Almeida Carneiro , Hadi Abdine , Lawrence P. Petalidis , Michalis Vazirgiannis

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

Recent advances in Artificial Intelligence have enabled multi-modal systems to model and translate diverse information spaces. Extending beyond text and vision, we introduce OneProt, a multi-modal AI for proteins that integrates structural,…

Protein function annotation is an important yet challenging task in biology. Recent deep learning advancements show significant potential for accurate function prediction by learning from protein sequences and structures. Nevertheless,…

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Identifying novel functional protein structures is at the heart of molecular engineering and molecular biology, requiring an often computationally exhaustive search. We introduce the use of a Deep Convolutional Generative Adversarial…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-04-20 Ethan Moyer , Jeff Winchell , Isamu Isozaki , Yigit Alparslan , Mali Halac , Edward Kim

In recent years, deep learning algorithms have outperformed the state-of-the art methods in several areas thanks to the efficient methods for training and for preventing overfitting, advancement in computer hardware, the availability of…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-05-30 Ahmet Sureyya Rifaioglu , Tunca Doğan , Maria Jesus Martin , Rengul Cetin-Atalay , Mehmet Volkan Atalay

Proteins play a vital role in biological processes and are indispensable for living organisms. Accurate representation of proteins is crucial, especially in drug development. Recently, there has been a notable increase in interest in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-05-28 Dan Kalifa , Uriel Singer , Kira Radinsky

We introduce ProteinWorkshop, a comprehensive benchmark suite for representation learning on protein structures with Geometric Graph Neural Networks. We consider large-scale pre-training and downstream tasks on both experimental and…

The growing interest for comparing protein internal dynamics owes much to the realization that protein function can be accompanied or assisted by structural fluctuations and conformational changes. Analogously to the case of functional…

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