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ReviewComputational and structural biotechnology journal2023

From sequence to function through structure: Deep learning for protein design.

Noelia Ferruz, Michael Heinzinger, Mehmet Akdel, Alexander Goncearenco, Luca Naef, Christian Dallago

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Review in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 43 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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43 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Noelia FerruzInstitute of Informatics and Applications, University of Girona, Girona, Spain.
Michael HeinzingerDepartment of Informatics, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany.
Mehmet AkdelVantAI, 151 W 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, United States.
Alexander GoncearencoVantAI, 151 W 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, United States.
Luca NaefVantAI, 151 W 42nd Street, New York, NY 10036, United States.
Christian DallagoDepartment of Informatics, Bioinformatics & Computational Biology, Technische Universität München, 85748 Garching, Germany.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The process of designing biomolecules, in particular proteins, is witnessing a rapid change in available tooling and approaches, moving from design through physicochemical force fields, to producing plausible, complex sequences fast via end-to-end differentiable statistical models. To achieve conditional and controllable protein design, researchers at the interface of artificial intelligence and biology leverage advances in natural language processing (NLP) and computer vision techniques, coupled with advances in computing hardware to learn patterns from growing biological databases, curated annotations thereof, or both. Once learned, these patterns can be used to provide novel insights into mechanistic biology and the design of biomolecules. However, navigating and understanding the practical applications for the many recent protein design tools is complex. To facilitate this, we 1) document recent advances in deep learning (DL) assisted protein design from the last three years, 2) present a practical pipeline that allows to go from

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ADMM, Alternating Direction Method of MultipliersCNN, Convolutional Neural NetworkDeep learningDL, Deep learningDrug discoveryFNN, fully-connected neural networkGAN, Generative Adversarial NetworkGCN, Graph Convolutional NetworkGNN, Graph Neural NetworkGO, Gene OntologyGVP, Geometric Vector PerceptronLSTM, Long-Short Term MemoryMLP, Multilayer PerceptronMSA, Multiple Sequence AlignmentNLP, Natural Language ProcessingNSR, Natural Sequence RecoverypLM, protein Language ModelProtein designProtein language modelsProtein predictionVAE, Variational Autoencoder

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PMID36544476
PMCPMC9755234

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