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ArticleGenomics, proteomics & bioinformatics2023

NetGO 3.0: Protein Language Model Improves Large-scale Functional Annotations.

Shaojun Wang, Ronghui You, Yunjia Liu, Yi Xiong, Shanfeng Zhu

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Article in Genomics, proteomics & bioinformatics, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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Shaojun WangInstitute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Ronghui YouInstitute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Yunjia LiuSchool of Life Sciences, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China.
Yi XiongDepartment of Bioinformatics and Biostatistics, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai 200240, China; Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Shanghai 200232, China.
Shanfeng ZhuInstitute of Science and Technology for Brain-Inspired Intelligence and MOE Frontiers Center for Brain Science, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Shanghai Qi Zhi Institute, Shanghai 200030, China; MOE Key Laboratory of Computational Neuroscience and Brain-Inspired Intelligence, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Shanghai Key Laboratory of Intelligent Information Processing and Shanghai Institute of Artificial Intelligence Algorithm, Fudan University, Shanghai 200433, China; Zhangjiang Fudan International Innovation Center, Shanghai 200433, China. Electronic address: zhusf@fudan.edu.cn.

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Abstract

As one of the state-of-the-art automated function prediction (AFP) methods, NetGO 2.0 integrates multi-source information to improve the performance. However, it mainly utilizes the proteins with experimentally supported functional annotations without leveraging valuable information from a vast number of unannotated proteins. Recently, protein language models have been proposed to learn informative representations [e.g., Evolutionary Scale Modeling (ESM)-1b embedding] from protein sequences based on self-supervision. Here, we represented each protein by ESM-1b and used logistic regression (LR) to train a new model, LR-ESM, for AFP. The experimental results showed that LR-ESM achieved comparable performance with the best-performing component of NetGO 2.0. Therefore, by incorporating LR-ESM into NetGO 2.0, we developed NetGO 3.0 to improve the performance of AFP extensively. NetGO 3.0 is freely accessible at https://dmiip.sjtu.edu.cn/ng3.0.

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alpha-FetoproteinsAmino Acid Sequencealpha-FetoproteinsLarge-scale multi-label learningLearning to rankProtein function predictionProtein language modelWeb service

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