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Toshitake Asabuki, Claudia Clopath
Recurrent neural circuits often face inherent complexities in learning and generating their desired outputs, especially when they initially exhibit chaotic spontaneous activity. While the celebrated FORCE learning rule can train chaotic recurrent networks to produce coherent patterns by suppressing chaos, it requires…
Toshitake Asabuki, Claudia Clopath
Recurrent neural circuits often face inherent complexities in learning and generating their desired outputs, especially when they initially exhibit chaotic spontaneous activity. While the celebrated FORCE learning rule can train chaotic recurrent networks to produce coherent patterns by suppressing chaos, it requires…
Morten Nielsen, Claus Lundegaard, Ole Lund
Background Antigen presenting cells (APCs) sample the extra cellular space and present peptides from here to T helper cells, which can be activated if the peptides are of foreign origin. The peptides are presented on the surface of the cells in complex with major histocompatibility class II (MHC II) molecules.…
Shahroudi, Novin, Komisarenko, Viacheslav + 2 more
Every prediction is ultimately used in a downstream task. Consequently, evaluating prediction quality is more meaningful when considered in the context of its downstream use. Metrics based solely on predictive performance often diverge from measures of real-world downstream impact. Existing approaches incorporate the…
Masaki Tagashira
To capture structural homology in RNAs, predicting RNA structural alignments has been a fundamental framework around RNA science. Learning simultaneous RNA structural alignments in their rich scoring parameterization is an undeveloped subject because evaluating them is computationally expensive in nature. We developed…
Byung-Jun Yoon
Background Sequence alignment has become an indispensable tool in modern molecular biology research, and probabilistic sequence alignment models have been shown to provide an effective framework for building accurate sequence alignment tools. One such example is the pair hidden Markov model (pair-HMM), which has been…
Zhen Tan, Yinghan Fu, Gaurav Sharma, David H. Mathews
This paper presents TurboFold II, an extension of the TurboFold algorithm for predicting secondary structures for multiple RNA homologs. TurboFold II augments the structure prediction capabilities of TurboFold by additionally providing multiple sequence alignments. Probabilities for alignment of nucleotide positions…
Tao Fang, Damian Szklarczyk, Radja Hachilif, Christian von Mering
Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) play essential roles in most biological processes. The binding interfaces between interacting proteins impose evolutionary constraints that have successfully been employed to predict PPIs from multiple sequence alignments (MSAs). To construct MSAs, critical choices have to be made…
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In molecular machine learning, the choice of the representation of molecules can have a significant impact on model performance. However, understanding the root causes of these performance differences often proves challenging. One promising approach to explore model behavior is representational alignment, which…
Evan Hubinger, Adam S. Jermyn, Johannes Treutlein, Rubi Hudson + 1 more
'Kate Woolverton'] Unfortunately, such approaches also raise a variety of potentially fatal safety problems, particularly surrounding situations where predictive models predict the output of other AI systems, potentially unbeknownst to us. There are numerous potential solutions to such problems, however, primarily via…
Tao Fang, Damian Szklarczyk, Radja Hachilif, Christian von Mering
Protein-protein interactions play essential roles in almost all biological processes. The binding interfaces between interacting proteins impose evolutionary constraints, leading to co-evolutionary signals that have successfully been employed to predict protein interactions from multiple sequence alignments (MSAs).…
Maryam Gillani, Gianluca Pollastri
Alignments in bioinformatics refer to the arrangement of sequences to identify regions of similarity that can indicate functional, structural, or evolutionary relationships. They are crucial for bioinformaticians as they enable accurate predictions and analyses in various applications, including protein subcellular…
Maurits Dijkstra, Punto Bawono, Sanne Abeln, K. Anton Feenstra + 3 more
'Wan Fokkink' 'Jaap Heringa' 'Ilya Ioshikhes'] Protein or DNA motifs are sequence regions which possess biological importance. These regions are often highly conserved among homologous sequences. The generation of multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) with a correct alignment of the conserved sequence motifs is still…
Nimrod Serok, Ksenia Polonsky, Haim Ashkenazy, Itay Mayrose + 2 more
Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) inference is a central task in molecular evolution and comparative genomics, and the reliability of downstream analyses, including phylogenetic inference, depends critically on alignment quality. Despite this importance, most widely used MSA methods optimize the sum-of-pairs (SP)…
Maurits J J Dijkstra, Atze J van der Ploeg, K Anton Feenstra, Wan J Fokkink + 3 more
Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) is one of the fundamental tasks in bioinformatics, essential to a wide variety of workflows, including fold prediction, phylogenetic analysis and mutation impact prediction. The exact solution with dynamic programming is not feasible for more than a handful of sequences. For protein…
Andreas Grigorjew, Artur Gynter, Fernando Dias, Benjamin Buchfink + 2 more
Sequence alignments have become the foundation of life science research by unlocking biological mechanisms through protein comparisons. Despite its methodological success, most algorithmic innovation in the past decades focused on the optimal alignment problem, while often ignoring information derived from suboptimal…
James H. Collier, Lloyd Allison, Arthur M. Lesk, Peter J. Stuckey + 2 more
Structural molecular biology depends crucially on computational techniques that compare protein three-dimensional structures and generate structural alignments (the assignment of one-to-one correspondences between subsets of amino acids based on atomic coordinates.) Despite its importance, the structural alignment…
Yasmine Nahal, Janosch Menke, Julien Martinelli, Markus Heinonen + 5 more
Machine learning (ML) systems have enabled the modelling of quantitative structure-property relationships (QSPR) and structure-activity relationships (QSAR) using existing experimental data to predict target properties for new molecules. These property predictors hold significant potential in accelerating drug…
Joseph Redshaw, Darren Ting, Alex Brown, Jonathan Hirst + 1 more
Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) represent a potential solution to the growing problem of antimicrobial resistance, yet their identification through wet-lab experiments is a costly and timeconsuming process. Accurate computational predictions would allow rapid in silico screening of candidate AMPs, thereby accelerating…
David Medina-Ortiz, Sebastián Contreras, Juan Amado-Hinojosa, Jorge Torres-Almonacid + 3 more
'Jorge Torres-Almonacid' 'Juan A. Asenjo' 'Marcelo A. Navarrete' 'Álvaro Olivera‐Nappa'] Predicting the effect of mutations in proteins is one of the most critical challenges in protein engineering; by knowing the effect a substitution of one (or several) residues in the protein's sequence has on its overall…
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Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) are two important targets in current drug discovery, mainly due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the MERS-CoV outbreaks in recent years. An important target of both SARS-CoV-2 and MERS-CoV is the main…
Z. Shreif, Deborah A. Striegel, Vipul Periwal
A nucleotide sequence 35 base pairs long can take 1,180,591,620,717,411,303,424 possible values. An example of systems biology datasets, protein binding microarrays, contain activity data from about 40000 such sequences. The discrepancy between the number of possible configurations and the available activities is…