Proteins are commonly used by biochemical industry for numerous processes. Refining these proteins' properties via mutations causes stability effects as well. Accurate computational method to predict how mutations affect protein stability are necessary to facilitate efficient protein design. However, accuracy of predic…
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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.
Pipeline learns topological features for protein stability prediction.
problem Predicting protein stability using topological features.
method Data-driven method to learn topological features, comparing with expert features.
result Topological features achieve 92%-99% of SME-based models' performance.
New algorithm improves model generalization in structured biomedical domains.
problem Improving model generalization in structured biomedical domains.
method Proposes a new regret minimization (RGM) algorithm and its structured extension for better performance in diverse environments.
result Significantly outperforms previous state-of-the-art baselines on molecular property prediction, protein homology, and stability prediction.
Probabilistic thermal stability prediction through sparsity promoting transformer representationstat.ML
Paper improves Tm prediction of protein fragments using sparsity and probabilistic models.
problem Improving accuracy of melting temperature prediction for protein fragments.
method Promoting sparsity in pre-trained transformer models and adopting probabilistic frameworks.
result Mean absolute error of 0.23C for predicting melting temperature.
We introduce a machine learning approach for extracting fine-grained representations of protein evolution from molecular dynamics datasets. Metastable switching linear dynamical systems extend standard switching models with a physically-inspired stability constraint. This constraint enables the learning of nuanced repr…
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.
A novel methodology on distributed representations of proteins using their interacting ligandsstat.ML
The effective representation of proteins is a crucial task that directly affects the performance of many bioinformatics problems. Related proteins usually bind to similar ligands. Chemical characteristics of ligands are known to capture the functional and mechanistic properties of proteins suggesting that a ligand base…
A new framework uses text descriptions to improve protein design.
problem Lack of effective methods to incorporate textual descriptions in protein design.
method ProteinDT framework that combines text and protein structural information.
result ProteinDT significantly improves protein design accuracy and performance.
Deep learning models optimize protein sequences.
problem Optimizing protein properties through sequence design.
method Deep generative models guided by machine learning.
result Improved protein sequence generation from prior knowledge.
Mathematical pipeline identifies structural homology of knotted proteins.
problem Quantification and classification of protein structures, especially knotted proteins, require noise-free and complete data.
method Developed a geometric framework using persistent homology to analyze protein structures.
result Persistent homology accurately represents structural homology of knotted proteins and identifies geometric features of protein entanglement.
Recently, machine learning (ML) has established itself in various worldwide benchmarking competitions in computational biology, including Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) and Drug Design Data Resource (D3R) Grand Challenges. However, the intricate structural complexity and high ML dimensionality of bi…
ProGen models protein sequences for synthetic biology.
problem Generating proteins without structural annotations.
method Trained a 1.2B-parameter language model on 280M protein sequences.
result ProGen generates proteins with fine-grained control and accuracy.
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.
New method detects and compares folding pathways of knotted proteins.
problem Understanding the function of knots in protein folding.
method Topological analysis of protein knotoid distributions and entanglement.
result Reveals unique folding pathway for shallow knotted Carbonic Anhydrases.
PANDA: Predicting the change in proteins binding affinity upon mutations using sequence informationq-bio.BM
PANDA predicts protein binding affinity changes from sequences, outperforming existing methods.
problem Accurately predicting changes in protein binding affinity due to mutations.
method Sequence-based machine learning approach using protein sequence information.
result PANDA achieves higher Pearson correlation coefficients than existing methods.
A Novel Mathematical Model of Protein Interactions from the Perspective of Electron Delocalizationq-bio.BM
A new model explains protein interactions via electron delocalization.
problem Understanding how protein interactions affect each other.
method Quantized discrete differential geometry of n-simplices.
result Allosteric regulation follows from the model of interactions.
EBM predicts protein conformations at atomic scale using crystallized data.
problem Predicting the conformation of a side chain from its context within a protein structure.
method Energy-based model trained on crystallized protein data, evaluating performance on rotamer recovery task.
result EBM achieves performance close to state-of-the-art methods, including Rosetta energy function.
Experimental determination of protein function is resource-consuming. As an alternative, computational prediction of protein function has received attention. In this context, protein structural classification (PSC) can help, by allowing for determining structural classes of currently unclassified proteins based on thei…
Parallel Protein Community Detection in Large-scale PPI Networks Based on Multi-source Learningcs.SI
Protein interactions constitute the fundamental building block of almost every life activity. Identifying protein communities from Protein-Protein Interaction (PPI) networks is essential to understand the principles of cellular organization and explore the causes of various diseases. It is critical to integrate multipl…
Mathematician summarizes protein geometry and mutation effects.
problem Understanding how proteins mutate and their structure-function relationship.
method Mathematical analysis of protein structures and functions, focusing on hydrogen bonds and secondary structure.
result Protein secondary structure regulates mutation by stabilizing or destabilizing regions.
EGR refines and assesses protein complex structures.
problem Improving the accuracy of protein complex 3D structures for drug discovery.
method E(3)-equivariant graph neural network (GNN) for multi-task refinement and assessment.
result EGR achieves state-of-the-art performance in refining and assessing protein complexes.
Fatgraph Models of Proteinsq-bio.BM
We introduce a new model of proteins, which extends and enhances the traditional graphical representation by associating a combinatorial object called a fatgraph to any protein based upon its intrinsic geometry. Fatgraphs can easily be stored and manipulated as triples of permutations, and these methods are therefore a…
Two proteins are homologous if they have a common evolutionary origin, and the binary classification problem is to identify proteins in a candidate set that are homologous to a particular native protein. The feature (explanatory) variables available for classification are various measures of similarity of proteins. The…
As proteins with similar structures often have similar functions, analysis of protein structures can help predict protein functions and is thus important. We consider the problem of protein structure classification, which computationally classifies the structures of proteins into pre-defined groups. We develop a weight…
Flexible Kernels for Protein Property Prediction
problem Predicting protein properties from sparse experimental data
method Sequence kernels using evolutionary substitution matrices and local linearity
result Data-efficient models of protein property landscapes
New method steers protein design towards desired properties.
problem Challenges in designing proteins with specific structures and properties.
method Feynman-Kac framework applied to RFdiffusion models with guiding potentials.
result Significant improvement in predicted interface energetics and binder designability.
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.
Proteins are linear molecular chains that often fold to function. The topology of folding is widely believed to define its properties and function, and knot theory has been applied to study protein structure and its implications. More that 97% of proteins are, however, classified as unknots when intra-chain interaction…
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.
Study improves LLMs for PPI analysis by addressing uncertainty.
problem Uncertainty in LLM predictions for PPIs.
method Fine-tuned LLaMA-3 and BioMedGPT models, LoRA ensembles, Bayesian LoRA for UQ.
result Competitive PPI identification performance across diverse disease contexts.
Rapid progress in deep learning has spurred its application to bioinformatics problems including protein structure prediction and design. In classic machine learning problems like computer vision, progress has been driven by standardized data sets that facilitate fair assessment of new methods and lower the barrier to …
Few-step protein backbone generators reduce sampling time by over 20x.
problem Computational bottleneck in diffusion-based protein generation models.
method Score distillation adapted for protein backbone generation, combined with inference time noise modulation.
result Significant reduction in sampling time (20+ fold) while maintaining comparable performance.
Automated protein function prediction is a challenging problem with distinctive features, such as the hierarchical organization of protein functions and the scarcity of annotated proteins for most biological functions. We propose a multitask learning algorithm addressing both issues. Unlike standard multitask algorithm…
Inferring the structural properties of a protein from its amino acid sequence is a challenging yet important problem in biology. Structures are not known for the vast majority of protein sequences, but structure is critical for understanding function. Existing approaches for detecting structural similarity between prot…
Method uses network biology to construct gene expression models for cancer.
problem Building models for cancer phenotypes using gene expression data.
method Unsupervised construction of computational graphs based on protein-protein networks.
result The method outperforms other models in cancer phenotype analysis.
Protein Thoughts interprets protein interactions with clear reasoning, improving prediction accuracy.
problem Lack of mechanistic justification in protein-protein interaction predictions.
method Interpretable search problem reformulation, hypothesis-guided entropy-regularized Tree-of-Thoughts search, embedding-space flow matching.
result Improves mean best-binder rank from 47.7 to 11.2 on SHS148k benchmark.
Recently exciting progress has been made on protein contact prediction, but the predicted contacts for proteins without many sequence homologs is still of low quality and not very useful for de novo structure prediction. This paper presents a new deep learning method that predicts contacts by integrating both evolution…
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 functions of the protein. This relationship between a sequence and its function motiv…
Protein-protein interaction (PPI) prediction is an important problem in machine learning and computational biology. However, there is no data set for training or evaluation purposes, where all the instances are accurately labeled. Instead, what is available are instances of positive class (with possibly noisy labels) a…
Generative model designs highly designable proteins using geometric algebra.
problem Creating proteins with diverse and statistically accurate secondary structures.
method Introduced a geometric algebra flow matching model (FrameFlow) with Clifford Frame Attention (CFA) for protein backbone design.
result Achieved high designability, diversity, and novelty in protein backbone sampling.
Tail-GNNs improve protein function prediction using relational reinforcement.
problem Predicting hierarchical protein functions from sequence data.
method Combining Tail-GNNs with dilated convolutional networks for multi-task learning.
result Significant improvement in F_1 score for protein function prediction.
A new machine-learned CG model predicts protein structures efficiently.
problem Developing a universal, computationally efficient protein simulation model.
method Combining deep learning with all-atom protein simulations to create a transferable CG force field.
result The model predicts protein structures, intermediates, and fluctuations efficiently.
Motivation: Prediction of the interaction affinity between proteins and compounds is a major challenge in the drug discovery process. WideDTA is a deep-learning based prediction model that employs chemical and biological textual sequence information to predict binding affinity. Results: WideDTA uses four text-based inf…
Pre-Training of Deep Bidirectional Protein Sequence Representations with Structural Informationq-bio.BM
Bridging the exponentially growing gap between the numbers of unlabeled and labeled protein sequences, several studies adopted semi-supervised learning for protein sequence modeling. In these studies, models were pre-trained with a substantial amount of unlabeled data, and the representations were transferred to variou…
DiAMoNDBack models protein backmapping from coarse-grained Cα traces.
problem Restoring all-atom details from coarse-grained protein representations.
method Autoregressive denoising diffusion model for residue-by-residue backmapping.
result Achieves state-of-the-art reconstruction performance in diverse applications.
The knowledge regarding the function of proteins is necessary as it gives a clear picture of biological processes. Nevertheless, there are many protein sequences found and added to the databases but lacks functional annotation. The laboratory experiments take a considerable amount of time for annotation of the sequence…
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…