Summary of Pre-training Protein Bi-level Representation Through Span Mask Strategy on 3d Protein Chains, by Jiale Zhao et al.
Pre-Training Protein Bi-level Representation Through Span Mask Strategy On 3D Protein Chains
by Jiale Zhao, Wanru Zhuang, Jia Song, Yaqi Li, Shuqi Lu
First submitted to arxiv on: 2 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Artificial Intelligence (cs.AI); 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 The paper introduces a novel span mask pre-training strategy to learn meaningful representations of both residues and atoms in 3D protein chains, addressing the issue of information leakage caused by including atom structure in the input. By modeling proteins at both residue and atom levels, the approach outperforms other methods on binding site prediction and function prediction tasks. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary The researchers developed a new way to learn about proteins that includes more details than just the building blocks (called residues). They found that these smaller details (side chain atoms) are important for some tasks. To solve this problem, they created a special method to learn about both the big picture and the small details at the same time. This helped them create a better way to understand proteins, which is useful for many different applications. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Mask
