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Proteins are inherently multiscale physical systems whose functional properties emerge from coordinated structural organization across multiple spatial resolutions, ranging from atomic interactions to global fold topology. However, existing…

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Motivation: Protein function prediction is a challenging task and an open problem in computational biology. The Critical Assessment of protein Function Annotation (CAFA) is a triennial, community-driven initiative that provides an…

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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…

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The design of protein sequences with desired functionalities is a fundamental task in protein engineering. Deep generative methods, such as autoregressive models and diffusion models, have greatly accelerated the discovery of novel protein…

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While many good textbooks are available on Protein Structure, Molecular Simulations, Thermodynamics and Bioinformatics methods in general, there is no good introductory level book for the field of Structural Bioinformatics. This book aims…

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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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Proteins are responsible for the most diverse set of functions in biology. The ability to extract information from protein sequences and to predict the effects of mutations is extremely valuable in many domains of biology and medicine.…

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Most approaches to prediction of protein function from primary structure are based on similarity between the query sequence and sequences of known function. This approach, however, disregards the occurrence of gene duplication (paralogy) or…

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In recent years, there has been a surge in the development of 3D structure-based pre-trained protein models, representing a significant advancement over pre-trained protein language models in various downstream tasks. However, most existing…

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Self-supervised protein language models have proved their effectiveness in learning the proteins representations. With the increasing computational power, current protein language models pre-trained with millions of diverse sequences can…

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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…

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Directed evolution plays an indispensable role in protein engineering that revises existing protein sequences to attain new or enhanced functions. Accurately predicting the effects of protein variants necessitates an in-depth understanding…

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The structure of a protein is crucial in determining its functionality, and is much more conserved than sequence during evolution. A key task in structural biology is to compare protein structures in order to determine evolutionary…

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Compound-Protein Interaction (CPI) prediction aims to predict the pattern and strength of compound-protein interactions for rational drug discovery. Existing deep learning-based methods utilize only the single modality of protein sequences…

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Proteins perform critical processes in all living systems: converting solar energy into chemical energy, replicating DNA, as the basis of highly performant materials, sensing and much more. While an incredible range of functionality has…

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Domain adaptation aims to mitigate performance degradation caused by distribution shifts between a labeled source domain and an unlabeled or sparsely labeled target domain. Most existing approaches estimate domain discrepancy either in…

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