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Large pretrained language models have transformed natural language processing, and their adaptation to protein sequences -- viewed as strings of amino acid characters -- has advanced protein analysis. However, the distinct properties of…

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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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Recent advancements in unsupervised protein language models (ProteinLMs), like ESM-1b and ESM-2, have shown promise in different protein prediction tasks. However, these models face challenges due to their high computational demands,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-10-31 Shuang Peng , Fei Yang , Ning Sun , Sheng Chen , Yanfeng Jiang , Aimin Pan

AI-based protein structure prediction pipelines, such as AlphaFold2, have achieved near-experimental accuracy. These advanced pipelines mainly rely on Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSAs) as inputs to learn the co-evolution information from…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-19 Xiaomin Fang , Fan Wang , Lihang Liu , Jingzhou He , Dayong Lin , Yingfei Xiang , Xiaonan Zhang , Hua Wu , Hui Li , Le Song

Reparameterized diffusion models (RDMs) have recently matched autoregressive methods in protein generation, motivating their use for challenging tasks such as designing membrane proteins, which possess interleaved soluble and transmembrane…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-09-30 Shrey Goel , Peregrine M. Schray , Yinuo Zhang , Sophia Vincoff , Huong T. Kratochvil , Pranam Chatterjee

Protein circular permutations are crucial for understanding protein evolution and functionality. Traditional detection methods, sequence-based or structure-based, struggle with accuracy and computational efficiency, the latter also limited…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2024-08-07 Yue Hu , Bin Huang , Chunzi Zang

Large language models (LLMs) have shown promise in various natural language processing tasks, including their application to proteomics data to classify protein fragments. In this study, we curated a limited mass spectrometry dataset with…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-02-28 Taylor A Phillips , Alejandro W. Huskey , Patrick T. Huskey , Seth L. Robia , Peter M. Kekenes-Huskey

Protein activity is a significant characteristic for recombinant proteins which can be used as biocatalysts. High activity of proteins reduces the cost of biocatalysts. A model that can predict protein activity from amino acid sequence is…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2018-07-23 X. Han , X. Wang , K. Zhou

Proteins are fundamental components of biological systems and can be represented through various modalities, including sequences, structures, and textual descriptions. Despite the advances in deep learning and scientific large language…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-07-15 Zhiyuan Chen , Tianhao Chen , Chenggang Xie , Yang Xue , Xiaonan Zhang , Jingbo Zhou , Xiaomin Fang

We introduce EvoFlows, a variable-length protein sequence-to-sequence modeling approach designed for protein engineering. Existing protein language models are poorly suited for optimization tasks: autoregressive models require full sequence…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Nicolas Deutschmann , Constance Ferragu , Jonathan D. Ziegler , Shayan Aziznejad , Eli Bixby

The impact of Transformer-based language models has been unprecedented in Natural Language Processing (NLP). The success of such models has also led to their adoption in other fields including bioinformatics. Taking this into account, this…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-21 Nimisha Ghosh , Daniele Santoni , Debaleena Nawn , Eleonora Ottaviani , Giovanni Felici

Learning language of protein sequences, which captures non-local interactions between amino acids close in the spatial structure, is a long-standing bioinformatics challenge, which requires at least context-free grammars. However, complex…

Formal Languages and Automata Theory · Computer Science 2019-03-20 Witold Dyrka , François Coste , Juliette Talibart

Applying AI foundation models directly to geospatial datasets remains challenging due to their limited ability to represent and reason with geographical entities, specifically vector-based geometries and natural language descriptions of…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Yuhan Ji , Song Gao , Ying Nie , Ivan Majić , Krzysztof Janowicz

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

The power of foundation models (FMs) lies in their capacity to learn highly expressive representations that can be adapted to a broad spectrum of tasks. However, these pretrained models require additional training stages to become effective…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-10-24 Jacob L. Block , Sundararajan Srinivasan , Liam Collins , Aryan Mokhtari , Sanjay Shakkottai

We present an automated approach for identifying and annotating motifs and domains in protein sequences, using pretrained Protein Language Models (PLMs) and Concept Activation Vectors (CAVs), adapted from interpretability research in…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-27 Ahmad Shamail , Claire D. McWhite

A central challenge in the study of protein evolution is the identification of historic amino acid sequence changes responsible for creating novel functions observed in present-day proteins. To address this problem, we developed a new…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2014-06-13 Victor Hanson-Smith , Christopher Baker , Alexander Johnson

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

Generative artificial intelligence models learn probability distributions from data and produce novel samples that capture the salient properties of their training sets. Proteins are particularly attractive for such approaches given their…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2026-02-27 Filippo Stocco , Michele Garibbo , Noelia Ferruz

Large language models (LLMs) have exhibited impressive abilities for multimodal content comprehension and reasoning with proper prompting in zero- or few-shot settings. Despite the proliferation of interactive systems developed to support…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2024-10-01 Jianben He , Xingbo Wang , Shiyi Liu , Guande Wu , Claudio Silva , Huamin Qu