A comprehensive understanding of protein functions holds significant promise for disease research and drug development, and proteins with analogous tertiary structures tend to exhibit similar functions. Protein fold recognition stands as a classical ...
We are now entering a new era in protein sequence and structure annotation, with hundreds of millions of predicted protein structures made available through the AlphaFold database. These models cover nearly all proteins that are known, including thos...
Exploiting sequence-structure-function relationships in biotechnology requires improved methods for aligning proteins that have low sequence similarity to previously annotated proteins. We develop two deep learning methods to address this gap, TM-Vec...
The marvel of X-ray crystallography is the beauty and precision of the atomic structures deduced from diffraction patterns. Since these patterns record only amplitudes, phases for the diffracted waves must also be evaluated for systematic structure d...
Peptide identification in liquid chromatography-tandem mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS) experiments relies on computational algorithms for matching acquired MS/MS spectra against sequences of candidate peptides using database search tools, such as MSFrag...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Jul 17, 2023
Identifying compound-protein interactions (CPIs) is crucial for drug discovery. Since experimentally validating CPIs is often time-consuming and costly, computational approaches are expected to facilitate the process. Rapid growths of available CPI d...
The general de novo solution of the crystallographic phase problem is difficult and only possible under certain conditions. This paper develops an initial pathway to a deep learning neural network approach for the phase problem in protein crystallogr...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
May 11, 2023
Over the past few years, many machine learning-based scoring functions for predicting the binding of small molecules to proteins have been developed. Their objective is to approximate the distribution which takes two molecules as input and outputs th...
Transport proteins (TPs) are vital to the growth and life of all living things, especially in fields of microbial pathogenesis and drug resistance of tumor cells. Accurately identifying potential TPs remains an important challenge for the advancement...
Current opinion in structural biology
Mar 21, 2023
Computational protein design facilitates the discovery of novel proteins with prescribed structure and functionality. Exciting designs were recently reported using novel data-driven methodologies that can be roughly divided into two categories: evolu...