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ArticleBriefings in bioinformatics2024

TUnA: an uncertainty-aware transformer model for sequence-based protein-protein interaction prediction.

Young Su Ko, Jonathan Parkinson, Cong Liu, Wei Wang

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Article in Briefings in bioinformatics, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 33 papers.

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Young Su KoDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0359, United States.ORCID 0009-0003-6004-6350
Jonathan ParkinsonDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0359, United States.
Cong LiuDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0359, United States.ORCID 0000-0002-4958-7856
Wei WangDepartment of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0359, United States.

Funding

Systems-level identification of key regulators deciding immune cell stateR01AI150282 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI WANG, WEI · 2020 to 2024
$3.5M
Designing neutralization antibodies against Sars-Cov-2R21AI158114 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, SAN DIEGO · PI WANG, WEI · 2020 to 2020
$434k
NIAID NIH HHS R21 AI158114NIH HHS R01AI150282
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are important for many biological processes, but predicting them from sequence data remains challenging. Existing deep learning models often cannot generalize to proteins not present in the training set and do not provide uncertainty estimates for their predictions. To address these limitations, we present TUnA, a Transformer-based uncertainty-aware model for PPI prediction. TUnA uses ESM-2 embeddings with Transformer encoders and incorporates a Spectral-normalized Neural Gaussian Process. TUnA achieves state-of-the-art performance and, importantly, evaluates uncertainty for unseen sequences. We demonstrate that TUnA's uncertainty estimates can effectively identify the most reliable predictions, significantly reducing false positives. This capability is crucial in bridging the gap between computational predictions and experimental validation.

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Computational BiologyAlgorithmsDeep LearningProtein Interaction MappingProteinsUncertaintyProteinsdeep learningprotein–protein interaction predictionuncertainty awareness

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PMID39051117
PMCPMC11269822

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