A^2-Net learns to estimate molecular structures from Cryo-EM data.
problem Estimating molecular structures from Cryo-EM density volumes.
method Learning-based approach using 3D detection and pose estimation.
result Achieves 91% coverage on new dataset and is hundreds of times faster.
Manifold methods improve amino acid classification in LIBS spectra.
problem Improving classification accuracy of amino acids in LIBS spectra.
method Developed an information theoretic method for measuring LIBS energy spectra, implemented manifold methods for nonlinear dimensionality reduction.
result Nonlinear methods lead to increased classification accuracy in amino acid classification.
A deep neural network based architecture was constructed to predict amino acid side chain conformation with unprecedented accuracy. Amino acid side chain conformation prediction is essential for protein homology modeling and protein design. Current widely-adopted methods use physics-based energy functions to evaluate s…
We attempt to set a mathematical foundation of immunology and amino acid chains. To measure the similarities of these chains, a kernel on strings is defined using only the sequence of the chains and a good amino acid substitution matrix (e.g. BLOSUM62). The kernel is used in learning machines to predict binding affinit…
Deep model learns protein interfaces from high-order interactions.
problem Predicting protein interfaces from amino acid pairs.
method Graph neural networks and convolutional neural networks for 2D dense predictions.
result Our method consistently improves interface prediction performance.
The application of machine learning to bioinformatics problems is well established. Less well understood is the application of bioinformatics techniques to machine learning and, in particular, the representation of non-biological data as biosequences. The aim of this paper is to explore the effects of giving amino acid…
AFP-CKSAAP predicts antifreeze proteins using k-spaced amino acid pairs with deep neural networks.
problem Predicting antifreeze proteins due to their diverse sequence characteristics.
method Deep neural network with skipped connections and ReLU non-linearity to learn protein sequence descriptors.
result AFP-CKSAAP achieves excellent prediction scores and high Youden's index (0.82) on independent dataset.
During the past decade, with the significant progress of computational power as well as ever-rising data availability, deep learning techniques became increasingly popular due to their excellent performance on computer vision problems. The size of the Protein Data Bank has increased more than 15 fold since 1999, which …
Bayesian network models are finding success in characterizing enzyme-catalyzed reactions, slow conformational changes, predicting enzyme inhibition, and genomics. In this work, we apply them to statistical modeling of peptides by simultaneously identifying amino acid sequence motifs and using a motif-based model to cla…
A new method predicts protein functions using variable-length sequences.
problem Computational methods for protein function prediction are slow and inaccurate for long sequences.
method Two feature sets: single fixed-sized segments and multi-sized segments, using bi-directional LSTM. Combined with MLDA features.
result Significant improvement in accuracy for long protein sequences.
A geometric analysis of protein folding, which complements many of the models in the literature, is presented. We examine the process from unfolded strand to the point where the strand becomes self-interacting. A central question is how it is possible that so many initial configurations proceed to fold to a unique fina…
Deep learning predicts protein structures accurately.
problem Predicting the 3D structure of proteins from amino acid sequences.
method Embeddings and deep learning models for backbone atom distance matrices and torsion angles.
result Competitive results in CASP13 and CASP12, surpassing previous winners.
Decomposes information into copying and transformation modes.
problem Lack of distinction between copying and transformation in information measures.
method Derives a decomposition of mutual information into copying and transformation components.
result Copy information can be interpreted as minimal physical copying work.
New method maps protein sequences to embeddings encoding structural information.
problem Inferring structural properties from amino acid sequences when structures are unknown.
method Representation learning using bidirectional LSTM models with structural similarity and residue contact maps.
result Trained embeddings improve structural similarity prediction and transfer to other tasks.
We present a convolutional network that is equivariant to rigid body motions. The model uses scalar-, vector-, and tensor fields over 3D Euclidean space to represent data, and equivariant convolutions to map between such representations. These SE(3)-equivariant convolutions utilize kernels which are parameterized as a …
Automated protein structure prediction from cryo-EM data.
problem Challenging to build atomic models from cryo-EM densities without prior structure.
method Uses GCN and LSTM to automate model building from amino acid identities and candidate locations.
result Automated approach reduces time and eliminates human intervention for protein structure determination.
Antibodies are a critical part of the immune system, having the function of directly neutralising or tagging undesirable objects (the antigens) for future destruction. Being able to predict which amino acids belong to the paratope, the region on the antibody which binds to the antigen, can facilitate antibody design an…
Paper improves zero-shot protein stability prediction by clarifying free-energy foundations.
problem Improving zero-shot protein stability prediction using inverse folding models.
method Clarifying the free-energy foundations of inverse folding models and proposing better estimates of relative stability.
result Significant gains in zero-shot performance can be achieved with simple methods.
New algorithm improves interpretability in sequence classification.
problem Lack of human-independent interpretability metrics in sequence classification.
method Combines linear classifiers with background knowledge embeddings to create a new feature space.
result Preserves predictive power while delivering more interpretable models.
Kernelized PCovR reveals structure-property relations in chemistry and materials.
problem Understanding structure-property relations in complex systems.
method Kernel Principal Covariates Regression (kernel PCovR) with sparsification.
result Kernelized PCovR effectively reveals and predicts structure-property relations.
We describe a probabilistic PARAFAC/CANDECOMP (CP) factorization for multiway (i.e., tensor) data that incorporates auxiliary covariates, SupCP. SupCP generalizes the supervised singular value decomposition (SupSVD) for vector-valued observations, to allow for observations that have the form of a matrix or higher-order…
The paper analyzes how the one-dimensional Wasserstein distance captures pointwise density differences in finite samples.
problem Uncertainty in identifying density differences when supports overlap and densities have substantial pointwise differences.
method Analysis using the Poisson process and neural spike train decoding.
result The one-dimensional Wasserstein distance highlights meaningful density differences related to both rate and support.
The worldwide surge of multiresistant microbial strains has propelled the search for alternative treatment options. The study of Protein-Protein Interactions (PPIs) has been a cornerstone in the clarification of complex physiological and pathogenic processes, thus being a priority for the identification of vital compon…
Compact E-Nose detects wine spoilage by acetic acid quickly.
problem Early detection of wine spoilage by acetic acid.
method Portable E-Nose with SnO2 sensors and deep MLP neural network trained approach.
result Classifies wine spoilage levels in 2.7 seconds.
A new diffusion model generates novel protein backbones without relying on pretrained networks.
problem Generating novel protein backbones without relying on pretrained networks.
method Developed a SE(3) invariant diffusion model on multiple frames, called FrameDiff.
result Generated designable protein monomers up to 500 amino acids without pretrained networks.
As in many other scientific domains, we face a fundamental problem when using machine learning to identify proteins from mass spectrometry data: large ground truth datasets mapping inputs to correct outputs are extremely difficult to obtain. Instead, we have access to imperfect hand-coded models crafted by domain exper…
New 3D protein analysis methods improve accuracy.
problem Lack of suitable learning algorithms for protein data.
method Intrinsic-Extrinsic Convolution and Pooling for 3D protein structures.
result Outperforms state-of-the-art methods on protein analysis tasks.
Bi-GNN models drug interactions using a bi-level graph approach.
problem Predicting drug-drug interactions using machine learning.
method Bi-level graph neural networks that consider both interaction graph and representation graphs of drugs.
result Bi-GNN model improves DDI prediction accuracy compared to existing methods.
We propose a specialized string kernel for small bio-molecules, peptides and pseudo-sequences of binding interfaces. The kernel incorporates physico-chemical properties of amino acids and elegantly generalize eight kernels, such as the Oligo, the Weighted Degree, the Blended Spectrum, and the Radial Basis Function. We …
Study infers evolutionary interactions from protein sequences using regularization methods.
problem Inferring evolutionary interactions from protein sequences.
method Regularization methods, including L2 for fields and group L1 for couplings, with parameter tuning. result Effective regularization parameters for sparse couplings improve accuracy.
A new method estimates protein evolutionary fields and couplings from alignments.
problem Estimating evolutionary fields and couplings from protein sequence alignments.
method Boltzmann machine with parallel, persistent Markov chain Monte Carlo method.
result Improved precision in predicting contact residue pairs.
Timewarp accelerates molecular dynamics by learning to simulate long timescales.
problem Efficiently simulating long timescales in molecular dynamics.
method Uses a normalizing flow to learn large time steps in Markov chain Monte Carlo.
result Generalizes to unseen small peptides, accelerating sampling.
Numbers and numerical vectors account for a large portion of data. However, recently the amount of string data generated has increased dramatically. Consequently, classifying string data is a common problem in many fields. The most widely used approach to this problem is to convert strings into numerical vectors using …
As high-throughput biological sequencing becomes faster and cheaper, the need to extract useful information from sequencing becomes ever more paramount, often limited by low-throughput experimental characterizations. For proteins, accurate prediction of their functions directly from their primary amino-acid sequences h…
Branching Flows generates sequences of varying lengths using binary trees.
problem Generating sequences of unknown lengths or fixed elements.
method A generative modeling framework that evolves states over binary trees, controlling sequence length.
result Branching Flows can generate sequences of varying lengths and mix different types of state spaces.
ProtTrans models predict protein features without evolutionary info.
problem Predicting protein features from amino acid sequences.
method Self-supervised deep learning on large protein datasets.
result ProtT5 embeddings outperform state-of-the-art for per-residue predictions.
ACID neural network tests conditional independence efficiently.
problem Testing conditional independence in data.
method Amortized conditional independence testing using transformer-based neural networks.
result ACID achieves state-of-the-art performance and robust generalization.
MutaGAN predicts mutations of evolving protein populations using GANs.
problem Predicting mutations in evolving protein populations.
method Generative adversarial networks (GANs) with recurrent neural networks (RNNs).
result MutaGAN generates complete protein sequences with mutations.
PS8-Net improves eight-state protein secondary structure prediction accuracy.
problem Precise prediction of eight-state protein secondary structure (PSS) is crucial in bioinformatics.
method PS8-Net is a new deep convolutional neural network (DCNN) that uses a PS8 module with skip connections to enhance accuracy.
result PS8-Net achieves 76.89% Q8 accuracy on benchmark datasets.
A new approach to protein language models combines latent space prediction with masked language modeling.
problem Improving protein language models by predicting amino acid identities at masked positions.
method A variant of masked language modeling that predicts latent targets only at masked positions, retaining the MLM cross-entropy.
result The new approach outperforms pure masked language modeling on 11 out of 16 downstream tasks.
New method embeds DNA sequences for faster, more informative gene comparison.
problem Slow and costly sequence comparison methods for genes without exact matches.
method Recurrent neural networks to embed sequences in a low-dimensional space.
result Embedding allows for better comparison of genes without exact matches.
Nonparametric empirical Bayes denoising on Riemannian manifolds
problem Denoising measurements on compact Riemannian manifolds
method Using a surrogate oracle denoiser based on the marginal distribution of measurements
result Achieving nearly the Bayes risk in a low-noise regime
Stochastic attention learns to retrieve and generate from memory without training.
problem Learning to retrieve and generate from memory efficiently.
method Langevin dynamics on modern Hopfield energy for stochastic attention.
result Stochastic attention can retrieve and generate from memory without training, matching gold standards.
AMP0 predicts antimicrobial peptides targeting specific microbes.
problem Low-throughput screening of antimicrobial peptides.
method Zero-shot and few-shot machine learning.
result AMP0 can predict antimicrobial activity against specific microbes.
Method detects effects of synthesis parameters on plutonium oxide microstructure.
problem Detecting effects of synthesis parameters on material microstructure.
method Copula theory, high dimensional distribution distances, and permutational statistics.
result Effects of strike order and oxalic acid feed on plutonium oxide microstructure detected.
Non-synonymous single nucleotide polymorphisms (nsSNPs) are single nucleotide substitution occurring in the coding region of a gene and leads to a change in amino-acid sequence of protein. The studies have shown these variations may be associated with disease. Thus, investigating the effects of nsSNPs on protein functi…
Seq-SetNet processes sequence sets directly, improving protein structure prediction.
problem Processing sequence sets (MSAs) for structural inference without considering sequence order.
method Developed a symmetric function module to integrate features from MSAs.
result Seq-SetNet outperforms state-of-the-art approaches by 3.6% in precision.
Enhanced coloring invariant distinguishes folded molecular chain topologies.
problem Apparent indistinguishability of folded chain topologies using current coloring invariants.
method Introduced Boltzmann weights to improve the resolving power of quandle colorings.
result Improved resolution in distinguishing folded chain topologies.