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Inferring the structural properties of a protein from its amino acid sequence is a challenging yet important problem in biology. Structures are not known for the vast majority of protein sequences, but structure is critical for…

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Understanding the intertwined contributions of amino acid sequence and spatial structure is essential to explain protein behaviour. Here, we introduce INFUSSE (Integrated Network Framework Unifying Structure and Sequence Embeddings), a deep…

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AI-based in silico methods have improved protein structure prediction but often struggle with large protein complexes (PCs) involving multiple interacting proteins due to missing 3D spatial cues. Experimental techniques like Cryo-EM are…

Experimental determination of protein function is resource-consuming. As an alternative, computational prediction of protein function has received attention. In this context, protein structural classification (PSC) can help, by allowing for…

Molecular Networks · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-17 Khalique Newaz , Mahboobeh Ghalehnovi , Arash Rahnama , Panos J. Antsaklis , Tijana Milenkovic

Graphs as a type of data structure have recently attracted significant attention. Representation learning of geometric graphs has achieved great success in many fields including molecular, social, and financial networks. It is natural to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-07-08 Tian Xia , Wei-Shinn Ku

Understanding protein sequences is vital and urgent for biology, healthcare, and medicine. Labeling approaches are expensive yet time-consuming, while the amount of unlabeled data is increasing quite faster than that of the labeled data due…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Liang He , Shizhuo Zhang , Lijun Wu , Huanhuan Xia , Fusong Ju , He Zhang , Siyuan Liu , Yingce Xia , Jianwei Zhu , Pan Deng , Bin Shao , Tao Qin , Tie-Yan Liu

Proteins adopt multiple structural conformations to perform their diverse biological functions, and understanding these conformations is crucial for advancing drug discovery. Traditional physics-based simulation methods often struggle with…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-03-14 Jiarui Lu , Xiaoyin Chen , Stephen Zhewen Lu , Chence Shi , Hongyu Guo , Yoshua Bengio , Jian Tang

Proteins are fundamental biological entities that play a key role in life activities. The amino acid sequences of proteins can be folded into stable 3D structures in the real physicochemical world, forming a special kind of…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-04 Lirong Wu , Yufei Huang , Haitao Lin , Stan Z. Li

Structure determination is key to understanding protein function at a molecular level. Whilst significant advances have been made in predicting structure and function from amino acid sequence, researchers must still rely on expensive,…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2020-09-01 Alexander Hudson , Shaogang Gong

Protein representation learning plays a crucial role in understanding the structure and function of proteins, which are essential biomolecules involved in various biological processes. In recent years, deep learning has emerged as a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-11 Bozhen Hu , Cheng Tan , Lirong Wu , Jiangbin Zheng , Jun Xia , Zhangyang Gao , Zicheng Liu , Fandi Wu , Guijun Zhang , Stan Z. Li

In this study, we propose HOPER (HOlistic ProtEin Representation), a novel multimodal learning framework designed to enhance protein function prediction (PFP) in low-data settings. The challenge of predicting protein functions is compounded…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-12-18 Serbülent Ünsal , Sinem Özdemir , Bünyamin Kasap , M. Erşan Kalaycı , Kemal Turhan , Tunca Doğan , Aybar C. Acar

Protein language models trained on the masked language modeling objective learn to predict the identity of hidden amino acid residues within a sequence using the remaining observable sequence as context. They do so by embedding the residues…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-11 Pranav Kantroo , Günter P. Wagner , Benjamin B. Machta

Machine Learning-guided solutions for protein learning tasks have made significant headway in recent years. However, success in scientific discovery tasks is limited by the accessibility of well-defined and labeled in-domain data. To tackle…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-06 Ria Vinod , Pin-Yu Chen , Payel Das

MOTIVATION: Proteins fold into complex structures that are crucial for their biological functions. Experimental determination of protein structures is costly and therefore limited to a small fraction of all known proteins. Hence, different…

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Proteins are complex biomolecules that play a central role in various biological processes, making them critical targets for breakthroughs in molecular biology, medical research, and drug discovery. Deciphering their intricate, hierarchical…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-09 Viet Thanh Duy Nguyen , Truong-Son Hy

Protein language models have excelled in a variety of tasks, ranging from structure prediction to protein engineering. However, proteins are highly diverse in functions and structures, and current state-of-the-art models including the…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-02-27 Chang Ma , Haiteng Zhao , Lin Zheng , Jiayi Xin , Qintong Li , Lijun Wu , Zhihong Deng , Yang Lu , Qi Liu , Lingpeng Kong

Protein structure-based property prediction has emerged as a promising approach for various biological tasks, such as protein function prediction and sub-cellular location estimation. The existing methods highly rely on experimental protein…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-20 Yufei Huang , Siyuan Li , Jin Su , Lirong Wu , Odin Zhang , Haitao Lin , Jingqi Qi , Zihan Liu , Zhangyang Gao , Yuyang Liu , Jiangbin Zheng , Stan. ZQ. Li

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…

Machine learning models increasingly map biological sequence-fitness landscapes to predict mutational effects. Effective evaluation of these models requires benchmarks curated from empirical data. Despite their impressive scales, existing…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-30 Mingyu Huang , Shasha Zhou , Ke Li

In this paper we address the problem of protein classification starting from a multi-view 2D representation of proteins. From each 3D protein structure, a large set of 2D projections is generated using the protein visualization software…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2019-10-30 Loris Nanni , Alessandra Lumini , Federica Pasquali , Sheryl Brahnam