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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…

In this work we set out to find a method to classify protein structures using a Deep Learning methodology. Our Artificial Intelligence has been trained to recognize complex biomolecule structures extrapolated from the Protein Data Bank…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-11-04 Damiano Perri , Marco Simonetti , Andrea Lombardi , Noelia Faginas-Lago , Osvaldo Gervasi

Purpose: This study aimed to enhance protein sequence classification using natural language processing (NLP) techniques while addressing the impact of sequence similarity on model performance. We compared various machine learning and deep…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2025-05-26 Huma Perveen , Julie Weeds

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are associated with various diseases, including cancer, infections, and neurodegenerative disorders. Obtaining three-dimensional structural information on these PPIs serves as a foundation to interfere…

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Motivation: Protein embedding, which represents proteins as numerical vectors, is a crucial step in various learning-based protein annotation/classification problems, including gene ontology prediction, protein-protein interaction…

Genomics · Quantitative Biology 2024-05-21 Jiayu Shang , Cheng Peng , Yongxin Ji , Jiaojiao Guan , Dehan Cai , Xubo Tang , Yanni Sun

Accurate protein structure prediction from amino-acid sequences is critical to better understanding the protein function. Recent advances in this area largely benefit from more precise inter-residue distance and orientation predictions,…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-06-01 Jiaxiang Wu , Shitong Luo , Tao Shen , Haidong Lan , Sheng Wang , Junzhou Huang

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…

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Interactions between surfaces and proteins occur in many vital processes and are crucial in biotechnology: the ability to control specific interactions is essential in fields like biomaterials, biomedical implants and biosensors. In the…

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Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play a crucial role in numerous biological processes. Developing methods that predict binding affinity changes under substitution mutations is fundamental for modelling and re-engineering biological…

Background:Typically, proteins perform key biological functions by interacting with each other. As a consequence, predicting which protein pairs interact is a fundamental problem. Experimental methods are slow, expensive, and may be error…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-08 Leonardo Martini , Adriano Fazzone , Luca Becchetti

Information on protein-protein interactions (PPIs) not only advances our understanding of molecular biology but also provides important clues for target selection in drug discovery and the design of PPI inhibitors. One of the techniques…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-05-11 Masahito Ohue , Yutaka Akiyama

SkeleDock is a scaffold docking algorithm which uses the structure of a protein-ligand complex as a template to model the binding mode of a chemically similar system. This algorithm was evaluated in the D3R Grand Challenge 4 pose prediction…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-05-13 Alejandro Varela-Rial , Maciej Majewski , Alberto Cuzzolin , Gerard Martínez-Rosell , Gianni De Fabritiis

Predicting ATP-Protein Binding sites in genes is of great significance in the field of Biology and Medicine. The majority of research in this field has been conducted through time- and resource-intensive 'wet experiments' in laboratories.…

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Protein-ligand modeling underpins computational drug discovery and molecular design. Existing protein-ligand benchmarks typically evaluate whether a protein and ligand interact and how strongly they bind, through tasks such as binary…

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This paper describes a novel approach to synthesize molecular reactions to train a perceptron, i.e., a single-layered neural network, with sigmoidal activation function. The approach is based on fractional coding where a variable is…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2020-04-01 Xingyi Liu , Keshab K. Parhi

Prediction of protein-ligand complexes for flexible proteins remains still a challenging problem in computational structural biology and drug design. Here we present two novel deep neural network approaches with significant improvement in…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-08-28 Amr H. Mahmoud , Jonas F. Lill , Markus A. Lill

With the exponential increase of the protein sequence databases over time, multiple-sequence alignment (MSA) methods, like PSI-BLAST, perform exhaustive and time-consuming database search to retrieve evolutionary information. The resulting…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-08-21 Issar Arab

Accurately predicting protein melting temperature changes (Delta Tm) is fundamental for assessing protein stability and guiding protein engineering. Leveraging multi-modal protein representations has shown great promise in capturing the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-03-25 Daiheng Zhang , Yan Zeng , Xinyu Hong , Jinbo Xu

The inverse folding problem, aiming to design amino acid sequences that fold into desired three-dimensional structures, is pivotal for various biotechnological applications. Here, we introduce a novel approach leveraging Direct Preference…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-06-04 Junde Xu , Zijun Gao , Xinyi Zhou , Jie Hu , Xingyi Cheng , Le Song , Guangyong Chen , Pheng-Ann Heng , Jiezhong Qiu

Predicting how a drug-like molecule binds to a specific protein target is a core problem in drug discovery. An extremely fast computational binding method would enable key applications such as fast virtual screening or drug engineering.…

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