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Amino acid sequence portrays most intrinsic form of a protein and expresses primary structure of protein. The order of amino acids in a sequence enables a protein to acquire a particular stable conformation that is responsible for the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-29 Ashish Ranjan , Md Shah Fahad , David Fernandez-Baca , Akshay Deepak , Sudhakar Tripathi

Protein dynamics underlie many biological functions, yet remain difficult to characterize due to the high computational cost of molecular dynamics simulations and the scarcity of dynamic structural data. This survey reviews recent advances…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-04-29 Haocheng Tang , Liang Shi , Ya-Shi Zhang , Xixian Liu , Jian Tang , Jiarui Lu

Sequence set is a widely-used type of data source in a large variety of fields. A typical example is protein structure prediction, which takes an multiple sequence alignment (MSA) as input and aims to infer structural information from it.…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-06-27 Fusong Ju , Jianwei Zhu , Guozheng Wei , Qi Zhang , Shiwei Sun , Dongbo Bu

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…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Zitai Kong , Yiheng Zhu , Yinlong Xu , Hanjing Zhou , Mingzhe Yin , Jialu Wu , Hongxia Xu , Chang-Yu Hsieh , Tingjun Hou , Jian Wu

With Artificial Intelligence (AI) increasingly permeating various aspects of society, including healthcare, the adoption of the Transformers neural network architecture is rapidly changing many applications. Transformer is a type of deep…

As protein therapeutics play an important role in almost all medical fields, numerous studies have been conducted on proteins using artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence has enabled data driven predictions without the need for…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-03-30 Myeonghun Lee , Kyoungmin Min

Motivation: Proteins are of great significance in living organisms. However, understanding their functions encounters numerous challenges, such as insufficient integration of multimodal information, a large number of training parameters,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-05-23 Zhicong Wang , Zicheng Ma , Ziqiang Cao , Changlong Zhou , Jun Zhang , Yiqin Gao

Deep learning has contributed to major advances in the prediction of protein structure from sequence, a fundamental problem in structural bioinformatics. With predictions now approaching the accuracy of crystallographic resolution in some…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-01-26 Mu Gao , Mark Coletti , Russell B. Davidson , Ryan Prout , Subil Abraham , Benjamin Hernandez , Ada Sedova

Transcription factors (TFs) are macromolecules that bind to \textit{cis}-regulatory specific sub-regions of DNA promoters and initiate transcription. Finding the exact location of these binding sites (aka motifs) is important in a variety…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2016-11-18 Hamid Reza Hassanzadeh , May D. Wang

State-of-the-art methods for protein-protein interaction (PPI) extraction are primarily feature-based or kernel-based by leveraging lexical and syntactic information. But how to incorporate such knowledge in the recent deep learning methods…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2017-06-08 Yifan Peng , Zhiyong Lu

Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have greatly improved the Face Recognition (FR) performance in recent years. Almost all CNNs in FR are trained on the carefully labeled datasets containing plenty of identities. However, such…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2018-03-28 Wei Hu , Yangyu Huang , Fan Zhang , Ruirui Li , Wei Li , Guodong Yuan

While conventional Transformers generally operate on sequence data, they can be used in conjunction with structure models, typically SE(3)-invariant or equivariant graph neural networks (GNNs), for 3D applications such as protein structure…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-08-04 Isaac Ellmen , Constantin Schneider , Matthew I. J. Raybould , Charlotte M. Deane

Signaling proteins are an important topic in drug development due to the increased importance of finding fast, accurate and cheap methods to evaluate new molecular targets involved in specific diseases. The complexity of the protein…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2019-04-11 Carlos Fernandez-Lozano , Ruben F. Cuinas , Jose A. Seoane , Enrique Fernandez-Blanco , Julian Dorado , Cristian R. Munteanu

Protein language models have shown remarkable success in learning biological information from protein sequences. However, most existing models are limited by either autoencoding or autoregressive pre-training objectives, which makes them…

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Convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have been widely utilized in many computer vision tasks. However, CNNs have a fixed reception field and lack the ability of long-range perception, which is crucial to human pose estimation. Due to its…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-06-28 Zinan Xiong , Chenxi Wang , Ying Li , Yan Luo , Yu Cao

Supervised fine-tuning (SFT) is a standard approach for adapting large language models to specialized domains, yet its application to protein sequence modeling and protein language models (PLMs) remains ad hoc. This is in part because…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-11 Amin Tavakoli , Raswanth Murugan , Ozan Gokdemir , Arvind Ramanathan , Frances Arnold , Anima Anandkumar

Protein mutations can have profound effects on biological function, making accurate prediction of property changes critical for drug discovery, protein engineering, and precision medicine. Current approaches rely on fine-tuning…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-27 Srivathsan Badrinarayanan , Yue Su , Janghoon Ock , Alan Pham , Sanya Ahuja , Amir Barati Farimani

Viral infections are causing significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Understanding the interaction patterns between a particular virus and human proteins plays a crucial role in unveiling the underlying mechanism of viral infection…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-30 Thi Ngan Dong , Graham Brogden , Gisa Gerold , Megha Khosla

The diverse nature of protein prediction tasks has traditionally necessitated specialized models, hindering the development of broadly applicable and computationally efficient Protein Language Models (PLMs). In this work, we introduce…

Breast cancer's complexity and variability pose significant challenges in understanding its progression and guiding effective treatment. This study aims to integrate protein sequence data with expression levels to improve the molecular…

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