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ArticleBioinformatics (Oxford, England)2026

RP3Net: a deep learning model for predicting recombinant protein production in Escherichia coli.

Evgeny Tankhilevich, Sergio Martinez Cuesta, Ian Barrett, Carolina Berg, Lovisa Holmberg Schiavone, Andrew R Leach

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Evgeny TankhilevichEuropean Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8580-9172
Sergio Martinez CuestaData Sciences and Quantitative Biology, Discovery Sciences, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, Astra-Zeneca, Cambridge, CB2 0AA, United Kingdom.
Ian BarrettData Sciences and Quantitative Biology, Discovery Sciences, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, Astra-Zeneca, Cambridge, CB2 0AA, United Kingdom.
Carolina BergProtein Science, Structure and Biophysics, Discovery Sciences, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, Astra-Zeneca, Mölndal, 431 83, Sweden.
Lovisa Holmberg SchiavoneProtein Science, Structure and Biophysics, Discovery Sciences, BioPharmaceuticals R&D, Astra-Zeneca, Mölndal, 431 83, Sweden.
Andrew R LeachEuropean Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridgeshire, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8178-0253

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Abstract

motivationRecombinant protein expression can be a limiting step in the production of protein reagents for drug discovery and other biotechnology applications. We introduce RP3Net (Recombinant Protein Production Prediction Network), an AI model of small-scale heterologous soluble protein expression in Escherichia coli. RP3Net utilizes the most recent protein and genomic foundational models. A curated dataset of internal experimental results from AstraZeneca and publicly available data from the Structural Genomics Consortium was used for training, validation and testing of RP3Net.

resultsRP3Net achieves an increase in area under the receiver operator curve (AUROC) of 0.15, compared to a baseline model. When experimentally validated on an independent, prospective, manually selected set of 97 constructs, RP3Net outperformed currently available models, with an AUROC of 0.83, delivering accurate predictions in 77% of the cases, and correctly identifying successfully expressing constructs in 92% of cases. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: The model, along with installation and running instructions, is available under an MIT licence at https://github.com/RP3Net/RP3Net, DOI 10.5281/zenodo.17243498.

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Computational BiologyDeep LearningEscherichia coliRecombinant ProteinsRecombinant Proteins

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