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Gaia: An AI-enabled genomic context-aware platform for protein sequence annotation.

Nishant Jha, Joshua Kravitz, Jacob West-Roberts, Cong Lu, Antonio Pedro Camargo, Simon Roux, Andre Cornman, Yunha Hwang

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Nishant JhaTatta Bio, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5182-9255
Joshua KravitzTatta Bio, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-7765-5596
Jacob West-RobertsTatta Bio, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5985-8106
Cong LuTatta Bio, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5564-838X
Antonio Pedro CamargoDOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-3913-2484
Simon RouxDOE Joint Genome Institute, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-5831-5895
Andre CornmanTatta Bio, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0009-0001-9252-6063
Yunha HwangTatta Bio, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-0554-5598

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Abstract

Protein sequence similarity search is fundamental to biology research, but current methods are typically not able to consider crucial genomic context information indicative of protein function, especially in microbial systems. Here, we present Gaia (Genomic AI Annotator), a sequence annotation platform that enables rapid, context-aware protein sequence search across genomic datasets. Gaia leverages gLM2, a mixed-modality genomic language model trained on both amino acid sequences and their genomic neighborhoods to generate embeddings that integrate sequence-structure-context information. This approach allows for the identification of functionally and/or evolutionarily related genes that are found in conserved genomic contexts, which may be missed by traditional sequence- or structure-based search alone. Gaia enables real-time search of a curated database comprising more than 85 million protein clusters from 131,744 microbial genomes. We compare the homolog retrieval performance of Gaia search against other embedding and alignment-based approaches. We provide Gaia as a web-based, freely available tool.

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Computational BiologyGenomicsMolecular Sequence AnnotationProteinsSoftwareAmino Acid SequenceDatabases, ProteinProteins

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