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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2022

ProteinBERT: a universal deep-learning model of protein sequence and function.

Nadav Brandes, Dan Ofer, Yam Peleg, Nadav Rappoport, Michal Linial

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Article in Bioinformatics (Oxford, England), 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 455 papers.

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5 authors.

Nadav BrandesSchool of Computer Science and Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-0510-2546
Dan OferDepartment of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel.
Yam PelegDeep Trading Ltd., Haifa 3508401, Israel.
Nadav RappoportDepartment of Software and Information Systems Engineering, Faculty of Engineering Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva 8410501, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-7218-2558
Michal LinialDepartment of Biological Chemistry, The Alexander Silberman Institute of Life Sciences, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 9190401, Israel.ORCID 0000-0002-9357-4526

Funding

Israel Science Foundation (ISF) 2753/20
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

summarySelf-supervised deep language modeling has shown unprecedented success across natural language tasks, and has recently been repurposed to biological sequences. However, existing models and pretraining methods are designed and optimized for text analysis. We introduce ProteinBERT, a deep language model specifically designed for proteins. Our pretraining scheme combines language modeling with a novel task of Gene Ontology (GO) annotation prediction. We introduce novel architectural elements that make the model highly efficient and flexible to long sequences. The architecture of ProteinBERT consists of both local and global representations, allowing end-to-end processing of these types of inputs and outputs. ProteinBERT obtains near state-of-the-art performance, and sometimes exceeds it, on multiple benchmarks covering diverse protein properties (including protein structure, post-translational modifications and biophysical attributes), despite using a far smaller and faster model than competing deep-learning methods. Overall, ProteinBERT provides an efficient framework for rapidly training protein predictors, even with limited labeled data. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Code and pretrained model weights are available at https://github.com/nadavbra/protein_bert. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.

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Deep LearningAmino Acid SequenceLanguageNatural Language ProcessingProteinsProteins

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