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ArticleNature communications2022

PyUUL provides an interface between biological structures and deep learning algorithms.

Gabriele Orlando, Daniele Raimondi, Ramon Duran-Romaña, Yves Moreau, Joost Schymkowitz, Frederic Rousseau

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Gabriele OrlandoSwitch Laboratory, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
Daniele RaimondiESAT-STADIUS, KU Leuven, 3000, Belgium.
Ramon Duran-RomañaSwitch Laboratory, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium.
Yves MoreauESAT-STADIUS, KU Leuven, 3000, Belgium.
Joost SchymkowitzSwitch Laboratory, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium. joost.schymkowitz@kuleuven.be.ORCID 0000-0003-2020-0168
Frederic RousseauSwitch Laboratory, VIB-KU Leuven Center for Brain and Disease Research, Herestraat 49, 3000, Leuven, Belgium. frederic.rousseau@kuleuven.be.ORCID 0000-0002-9189-7399

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Abstract

Structural bioinformatics suffers from the lack of interfaces connecting biological structures and machine learning methods, making the application of modern neural network architectures impractical. This negatively affects the development of structure-based bioinformatics methods, causing a bottleneck in biological research. Here we present PyUUL ( https://pyuul.readthedocs.io/ ), a library to translate biological structures into 3D tensors, allowing an out-of-the-box application of state-of-the-art deep learning algorithms. The library converts biological macromolecules to data structures typical of computer vision, such as voxels and point clouds, for which extensive machine learning research has been performed. Moreover, PyUUL allows an out-of-the box GPU and sparse calculation. Finally, we demonstrate how PyUUL can be used by researchers to address some typical bioinformatics problems, such as structure recognition and docking.

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Deep LearningNeural Networks, ComputerAlgorithmsComputational BiologyHumansImaging, Three-DimensionalProtein Structural Elements

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PMCPMC8857184

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