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ArticleThe journal of physical chemistry letters2023

PeptideBERT: A Language Model Based on Transformers for Peptide Property Prediction.

Chakradhar Guntuboina, Adrita Das, Parisa Mollaei, Seongwon Kim, Amir Barati Farimani

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Article in The journal of physical chemistry letters, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 50 papers.

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Chakradhar GuntuboinaDepartment of Electrical and Computer Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.
Adrita DasDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.
Parisa MollaeiDepartment of Mechanical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4711-9012
Seongwon KimDepartment of Chemical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.
Amir Barati FarimaniDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 15213, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-2952-8576

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Abstract

Recent advances in language models have enabled the protein modeling community with a powerful tool that uses transformers to represent protein sequences as text. This breakthrough enables a sequence-to-property prediction for peptides without relying on explicit structural data. Inspired by the recent progress in the field of large language models, we present PeptideBERT, a protein language model specifically tailored for predicting essential peptide properties such as hemolysis, solubility, and nonfouling. The PeptideBERT utilizes the ProtBERT pretrained transformer model with 12 attention heads and 12 hidden layers. Through fine-tuning the pretrained model for the three downstream tasks, our model is state of the art (SOTA) in predicting hemolysis, which is crucial for determining a peptide's potential to induce red blood cells as well as nonfouling properties. Leveraging primarily shorter sequences and a data set with negative samples predominantly associated with insoluble peptides, our model showcases remarkable performance.

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HemolysisPeptidesAmino Acid SequenceCell DeathHumansLanguagePeptides

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