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The identification of bitter peptides is crucial in various domains, including food science, drug discovery, and biochemical research. These peptides not only contribute to the undesirable taste of hydrolyzed proteins but also play key…

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We propose a novel approach for predicting protein-peptide interactions using a bi-modal transformer architecture that learns an inter-facial joint distribution of residual contacts. The current data sets for crystallized protein-peptide…

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Peptides are formed by the dehydration condensation of multiple amino acids. The primary structure of a peptide can be represented either as an amino acid sequence or as a molecular graph consisting of atoms and chemical bonds. Previous…

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By coupling peptides with DNA tags (i.e., 'barcodes'), it is now possible to harness high-throughput sequencing (HTS) technologies to enable highly multiplexed peptide-based assays, which have a variety of potential applications including…

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Peptide compounds demonstrate considerable potential as therapeutic agents due to their high target affinity and low toxicity, yet their drug development is constrained by their low membrane permeability. Molecular weight and peptide length…

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Structure-based drug design (SBDD), which aims to generate 3D ligand molecules binding to target proteins, is a fundamental task in drug discovery. Existing SBDD methods typically treat protein as rigid and neglect protein structural change…

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The primary structures of peptides, originating from food proteins, affect their taste. Connecting primary structure to taste, however, is difficult because the size of the peptide sequence space increases exponentially with increasing…

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