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Through evolution, nature has presented a set of remarkable protein materials, including elastins, silks, keratins and collagens with superior mechanical performances that play crucial roles in mechanobiology. However, going beyond natural…

Materials Science · Physics 2023-12-19 Bo Ni , David L. Kaplan , Markus J. Buehler

Protein representation learning has advanced rapidly with the scale-up of sequence and structure supervision, but most models still encode proteins either as per-residue token sequences or as single global embeddings. This overlooks a…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-03-03 Robert Calef , Arthur Liang , Manolis Kellis , Marinka Zitnik

Developing effective representations of protein structures is essential for advancing protein science, particularly for protein generative modeling. Current approaches often grapple with the complexities of the SE(3) manifold, rely on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-14 Shaoning Li , Le Zhuo , Yusong Wang , Mingyu Li , Xinheng He , Fandi Wu , Hongsheng Li , Pheng-Ann Heng

Language models, especially transformer-based ones, have achieved colossal success in NLP. To be precise, studies like BERT for NLU and works like GPT-3 for NLG are very important. If we consider DNA sequences as a text written with an…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2026-01-21 Musa Nuri Ihtiyar , Arzucan Ozgur

The goal of structure-based drug discovery is to find small molecules that bind to a given target protein. Deep learning has been used to generate drug-like molecules with certain cheminformatic properties, but has not yet been applied to…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-27 Matthew Ragoza , Tomohide Masuda , David Ryan Koes

Protein structure prediction is a challenging and unsolved problem in computer science. Proteins are the sequence of amino acids connected together by single peptide bond. The combinations of the twenty primary amino acids are the…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2015-10-12 Mahmood A. Rashid , Firas Khatib , Abdul Sattar

Representation learning for text via pretraining a language model on a large corpus has become a standard starting point for building NLP systems. This approach stands in contrast to autoencoders, also trained on raw text, but with the…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-09-14 Ivan Montero , Nikolaos Pappas , Noah A. Smith

Protein representation learning is a challenging task that aims to capture the structure and function of proteins from their amino acid sequences. Previous methods largely ignored the fact that not all amino acids are equally important for…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-04-02 Ruijie Quan , Wenguan Wang , Fan Ma , Hehe Fan , Yi Yang

Predicting protein secondary structure is a fundamental problem in protein structure prediction. Here we present a new supervised generative stochastic network (GSN) based method to predict local secondary structure with deep hierarchical…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2014-03-07 Jian Zhou , Olga G. Troyanskaya

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

Natural language processing (NLP) enables the understanding and generation of meaningful human language, typically using a pre-trained complex architecture on a large dataset to learn the language and next fine-tune its weights to implement…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-09-04 Yarden Tzach , Ronit D. Gross , Ella Koresh , Shalom Rosner , Or Shpringer , Tal Halevi , Ido Kanter

Designing proteins de novo with tailored structural, physicochemical, and functional properties remains a grand challenge in biotechnology, medicine, and materials science, due to the vastness of sequence space and the complex coupling…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Fiona Y. Wang , Di Sheng Lee , David L. Kaplan , Markus J. Buehler

Considering the significance of proteins, computational protein science has always been a critical scientific field, dedicated to revealing knowledge and developing applications within the protein sequence-structure-function paradigm. In…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2025-01-28 Wenqi Fan , Yi Zhou , Shijie Wang , Yuyao Yan , Hui Liu , Qian Zhao , Le Song , Qing Li

Although DNA foundation models have advanced the understanding of genomes, they still face significant challenges in the limited scale and diversity of genomic data. This limitation starkly contrasts with the success of natural language…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-02-14 Huixin Zhan , Ying Nian Wu , Zijun Zhang

Protein language models (PLMs) have demonstrated remarkable success in protein modeling and design, yet their internal mechanisms for predicting structure and function remain poorly understood. Here we present a systematic approach to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-18 Elana Simon , James Zou

In recent years, protein-text models have gained significant attention for their potential in protein generation and understanding. Current approaches focus on integrating protein-related knowledge into large language models through…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-11-11 Juntong Wu , Zijing Liu , He Cao , Hao Li , Bin Feng , Zishan Shu , Ke Yu , Li Yuan , Yu Li

Our work is the first attempt to apply Natural Language Processing to automate the development of simulation models of systems vitally important for logistics. We demonstrated that the framework built on top of the fine-tuned GPT-3 Codex, a…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2023-04-03 Ilya Jackson , Maria Jesus Saenz

Recently developed deep learning techniques have significantly improved the accuracy of various speech and image recognition systems. In this paper we adapt some of these techniques for protein secondary structure prediction. We first train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Akosua Busia , Jasmine Collins , Navdeep Jaitly

We show that the contact map of the native structure of globular proteins can be reconstructed starting from the sole knowledge of the contact map's principal eigenvector, and present an exact algorithm for this purpose. Our algorithm…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2009-11-10 Markus Porto , Ugo Bastolla , H. Eduardo Roman , Michele Vendruscolo

This paper introduces diffusion protein language model (DPLM), a versatile protein language model that demonstrates strong generative and predictive capabilities for protein sequences. We first pre-train scalable DPLMs from…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-17 Xinyou Wang , Zaixiang Zheng , Fei Ye , Dongyu Xue , Shujian Huang , Quanquan Gu