Summary of Predicting O-glcnacylation Sites in Mammalian Proteins with Transformers and Rnns Trained with a New Loss Function, by Pedro Seber
Predicting O-GlcNAcylation Sites in Mammalian Proteins with Transformers and RNNs Trained with a New Loss Function
by Pedro Seber
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 Feb 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Molecular Networks (q-bio.MN)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary This paper tackles the challenge of reliably predicting O-GlcNAcylation sites, a crucial aspect of protein modification. The authors note that previous models were insufficient and failed to generalize, but in 2023, a new RNN model achieved impressive results with an F1 score of 36.17% and MCC of 34.57%. Building upon this work, the researchers aimed to improve these metrics using transformer encoders. Although transformers showed high performance on the dataset, their performance was inferior to the previous RNN model. To address this, the authors developed a new loss function, called the weighted focal differentiable MCC, which enabled RNN models to achieve superior performance compared to traditional weighted cross-entropy loss. Specifically, a two-cell RNN trained with this loss achieved state-of-the-art performance in O-GlcNAcylation site prediction with an F1 score of 38.88% and MCC of 38.20%. This breakthrough has significant implications for developing therapeutics targeting O-GlcNAcylation. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary This paper is about finding a better way to predict where proteins get modified by adding a special sugar molecule called O-GlcNAc. Right now, it’s hard to make accurate predictions because previous methods weren’t very good. But in 2023, someone came up with a new approach that did much better! The authors wanted to see if they could improve this method even more using a different type of machine learning model. They tried using something called transformers, but those didn’t work as well as the original RNN model. So, they created a new way to train models that worked really well and achieved a score of 38.88%! This is important because it can help us develop medicines that target O-GlcNAcylation. |
Keywords
* Artificial intelligence * Cross entropy * F1 score * Loss function * Machine learning * Rnn * Transformer
