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We introduce a pioneering methodology for boosting large language models in the domain of protein representation learning. Our primary contribution lies in the refinement process for correlating the over-reliance on co-evolution knowledge,…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-12-05 Yaoyao Xu , Xinjian Zhao , Xiaozhuang Song , Benyou Wang , Tianshu Yu

Attention-based models trained on protein sequences have demonstrated incredible success at classification and generation tasks relevant for artificial intelligence-driven protein design. However, we lack a sufficient understanding of how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Erik Nijkamp , Jeffrey Ruffolo , Eli N. Weinstein , Nikhil Naik , Ali Madani

Systematic identification of protein function is a key problem in current biology. Most traditional methods fail to identify functionally equivalent proteins if they lack similar sequences, structural data or extensive manual annotations.…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2016-03-08 Dan Ofer

In recent era prediction of enzyme class from an unknown protein is one of the challenging tasks in bioinformatics. Day to day the number of proteins is increases as result the prediction of enzyme class gives a new opportunity to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-01-21 Chhote Lal Prasad Gupta , Anand Bihari , Sudhakar Tripathi

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…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-23 An Phan , Yanli Wang , Frimpong Boadu , Maxat Kulmanov , Robert Hoehndorf , Jianlin Cheng , Predrag Radivojac , Iddo Friedberg

Protein classification tasks are essential in drug discovery. Real-world protein structures are dynamic, which will determine the properties of proteins. However, the existing machine learning methods, like ProNet (Wang et al., 2022a), only…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-03-27 Yi-Shan Lan , Pin-Yu Chen , Tsung-Yi Ho

We propose an effective method to improve Protein Function Prediction (PFP) utilizing hierarchical features of Gene Ontology (GO) terms. Our method consists of a language model for encoding the protein sequence and a Graph Convolutional…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2021-12-07 Kyudam Choi , Yurim Lee , Cheongwon Kim , Minsung Yoon

We report a flexible language-model based deep learning strategy, applied here to solve complex forward and inverse problems in protein modeling, based on an attention neural network that integrates transformer and graph convolutional…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-20 Markus J. Buehler

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…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-04-22 Hanwen Xu , Sheng Wang

Understanding protein solubility is essential for their functional applications. Computational methods for predicting protein solubility are crucial for reducing experimental costs and enhancing the efficiency and success rates of protein…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-01 Yang Tan , Jia Zheng , Liang Hong , Bingxin Zhou

We tackle the problem of protein secondary structure prediction using a common task framework. This lead to the introduction of multiple ideas for neural architectures based on state of the art building blocks, used in this task for the…

Recently, extensive deep learning architectures and pretraining strategies have been explored to support downstream protein applications. Additionally, domain-specific models incorporating biological knowledge have been developed to enhance…

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Boosting is a method for learning a single accurate predictor by linearly combining a set of less accurate weak learners. Recently, structured learning has found many applications in computer vision. Inspired by structured support vector…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2020-03-10 Chunhua Shen , Guosheng Lin , Anton van den Hengel

Natural gradient has been recently introduced to the field of boosting to enable the generic probabilistic predication capability. Natural gradient boosting shows promising performance improvements on small datasets due to better training…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-12-06 Liliang Ren , Gen Sun , Jiaman Wu

Many single-target regression problems require estimates of uncertainty along with the point predictions. Probabilistic regression algorithms are well-suited for these tasks. However, the options are much more limited when the prediction…

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Convolutional Neural Networks (CNNs) have achieved remarkable success across a wide range of machine learning tasks by leveraging hierarchical feature learning through deep architectures. However, the large number of layers and millions of…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-18 Biyi Fang , Truong Vo , Jean Utke , Diego Klabjan

Advanced automated AI techniques allow us to classify protein sequences and discern their biological families and functions. Conventional approaches for classifying these protein families often focus on extracting N-Gram features from the…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-10-24 Bahar Ali , Anwar Shah , Malik Niaz , Musadaq Mansoord , Sami Ullah , Muhammad Adnan

Motivation: To assess the quality of a protein model, i.e. to estimate how close it is to its native structure, using no other information than the structure of the model has been shown to be useful for structure prediction. The state of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-02-19 Karolis Uziela , Björn Wallner , Arne Elofsson

Network theory has proven invaluable in unraveling complex protein interactions. Previous studies have employed statistical methods rooted in network theory, including the Gaussian graphical model, to infer networks among proteins,…

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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…

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