Summary of Pepharmony: a Multi-view Contrastive Learning Framework For Integrated Sequence and Structure-based Peptide Encoding, by Ruochi Zhang et al.
PepHarmony: A Multi-View Contrastive Learning Framework for Integrated Sequence and Structure-Based Peptide Encoding
by Ruochi Zhang, Haoran Wu, Chang Liu, Huaping Li, Yuqian Wu, Kewei Li, Yifan Wang, Yifan Deng, Jiahui Chen, Fengfeng Zhou, Xin Gao
First submitted to arxiv on: 21 Jan 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science (cs.CE); Biomolecules (q-bio.BM)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This study introduces PepHarmony, a novel multi-view contrastive learning framework for peptide sequence representation. By combining both sequence- and structure-level information into a sequence-level encoding module through contrastive learning, PepHarmony outperforms baseline and fine-tuned models in capturing the intricate relationship between peptide sequences and structures. The proposed framework is robust, as confirmed by extensive ablation studies, which highlight the importance of contrastive loss and strategic data sorting. This work contributes to peptide representations and offers valuable insights for applications in peptide drug discovery and engineering. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary PepHarmony is a new way to represent peptides using computer models. Peptides are short chains of amino acids, and understanding their sequences and structures is important for finding new medicines and designing new proteins. The current best models aren’t good enough because they don’t take into account the complex and sometimes unstable structures of peptides. PepHarmony changes this by combining information from different sources to get a better representation of peptides. This helps it predict peptide sequences and structures more accurately than other models. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Contrastive loss
