Summary of Protscape: Mapping the Landscape Of Protein Conformations in Molecular Dynamics, by Siddharth Viswanath et al.
ProtSCAPE: Mapping the landscape of protein conformations in molecular dynamics
by Siddharth Viswanath, Dhananjay Bhaskar, David R. Johnson, Joao Felipe Rocha, Egbert Castro, Jackson D. Grady, Alex T. Grigas, Michael A. Perlmutter, Corey S. O’Hern, Smita Krishnaswamy
First submitted to arxiv on: 27 Oct 2024
Categories
- Main: Machine Learning (cs.LG)
- Secondary: Chemical Physics (physics.chem-ph); Biomolecules (q-bio.BM); Quantitative Methods (q-bio.QM)
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| High | Paper authors | High Difficulty Summary Read the original abstract here |
| Medium | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Medium Difficulty Summary The novel deep learning architecture, Protein Transformer with Scattering, Attention, and Positional Embedding (ProtSCAPE), aims to overcome the challenges of modeling protein motions on microsecond to millisecond scales. By leveraging the geometric scattering transform and transformer-based attention mechanisms, ProtSCAPE captures protein dynamics from molecular dynamics simulations. The model utilizes multi-scale features extracted from protein structures conceptualized as graphs and integrates these with dual attention structures that focus on residues and amino acid signals. This allows for generating latent representations of protein trajectories and enforcing temporally coherent representations through a regression head. |
| Low | GrooveSquid.com (original content) | Low Difficulty Summary ProtSCAPE is a new way to understand how proteins move and change shape over very short periods of time. Currently, it’s hard to predict these movements, but ProtSCAPE uses special math and computer science ideas to make it easier. The model looks at protein structures like puzzles and figures out how the pieces fit together to create movement patterns. This helps scientists better understand what proteins do in our bodies and how they might be involved in diseases. |
Keywords
» Artificial intelligence » Attention » Deep learning » Embedding » Regression » Transformer
