A guide to machine learning for biologists

JG Greener, SM Kandathil, L Moffat… - Nature reviews Molecular …, 2022 - nature.com
The expanding scale and inherent complexity of biological data have encouraged a growing
use of machine learning in biology to build informative and predictive models of the …

Enzymology of assembly line synthesis by modular polyketide synthases

M Grininger - Nature Chemical Biology, 2023 - nature.com
Modular polyketide synthases (PKSs) run catalytic reactions over dozens of steps in a highly
orchestrated manner. To accomplish this synthetic feat, they form megadalton multienzyme …

ProtGPT2 is a deep unsupervised language model for protein design

N Ferruz, S Schmidt, B Höcker - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Protein design aims to build novel proteins customized for specific purposes, thereby
holding the potential to tackle many environmental and biomedical problems. Recent …

Design of protein-binding proteins from the target structure alone

L Cao, B Coventry, I Goreshnik, B Huang, W Sheffler… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
The design of proteins that bind to a specific site on the surface of a target protein using no
information other than the three-dimensional structure of the target remains a challenge …

Genomic characterization of the 2019 novel human-pathogenic coronavirus isolated from a patient with atypical pneumonia after visiting Wuhan

JFW Chan, KH Kok, Z Zhu, H Chu, KKW To… - Emerging microbes & …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A mysterious outbreak of atypical pneumonia in late 2019 was traced to a
seafood wholesale market in Wuhan of China. Within a few weeks, a novel coronavirus …

flDPnn: Accurate intrinsic disorder prediction with putative propensities of disorder functions

G Hu, A Katuwawala, K Wang, Z Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Identification of intrinsic disorder in proteins relies in large part on computational predictors,
which demands that their accuracy should be high. Since intrinsic disorder carries out a …

Developing a fully glycosylated full-length SARS-CoV-2 spike protein model in a viral membrane

H Woo, SJ Park, YK Choi, T Park… - The journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
This technical study describes all-atom modeling and simulation of a fully glycosylated full-
length SARS-CoV-2 spike (S) protein in a viral membrane. First, starting from PDB: 6VSB …

Nucleolar maturation of the human small subunit processome

S Singh, A Vanden Broeck, L Miller, M Chaker-Margot… - Science, 2021 - science.org
INTRODUCTION The ribosome catalyzes protein synthesis in all cells by coupling the
decoding of messenger RNA by the small ribosomal subunit with peptide bond formation by …

[HTML][HTML] Improved pathogenicity prediction for rare human missense variants

Y Wu, H Liu, R Li, S Sun, J Weile, FP Roth - The American Journal of …, 2021 - cell.com
The success of personalized genomic medicine depends on our ability to assess the
pathogenicity of rare human variants, including the important class of missense variation …

DDX3X acts as a live-or-die checkpoint in stressed cells by regulating NLRP3 inflammasome

P Samir, S Kesavardhana, DM Patmore, S Gingras… - Nature, 2019 - nature.com
The cellular stress response has a vital role in regulating homeostasis by modulating cell
survival and death. Stress granules are cytoplasmic compartments that enable cells to …