Directed evolution: methodologies and applications

Y Wang, P Xue, M Cao, T Yu, ST Lane… - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Directed evolution aims to expedite the natural evolution process of biological molecules
and systems in a test tube through iterative rounds of gene diversifications and library …

Learning the protein language: Evolution, structure, and function

T Bepler, B Berger - Cell systems, 2021 - cell.com
Language models have recently emerged as a powerful machine-learning approach for
distilling information from massive protein sequence databases. From readily available …

Biological structure and function emerge from scaling unsupervised learning to 250 million protein sequences

A Rives, J Meier, T Sercu, S Goyal… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
In the field of artificial intelligence, a combination of scale in data and model capacity
enabled by unsupervised learning has led to major advances in representation learning and …

[HTML][HTML] D-SCRIPT translates genome to phenome with sequence-based, structure-aware, genome-scale predictions of protein-protein interactions

S Sledzieski, R Singh, L Cowen, B Berger - Cell Systems, 2021 - cell.com
We combine advances in neural language modeling and structurally motivated design to
develop D-SCRIPT, an interpretable and generalizable deep-learning model, which predicts …

Transforming the language of life: transformer neural networks for protein prediction tasks

A Nambiar, M Heflin, S Liu, S Maslov… - Proceedings of the 11th …, 2020 - dl.acm.org
The scientific community is rapidly generating protein sequence information, but only a
fraction of these proteins can be experimentally characterized. While promising deep …

Neural networks to learn protein sequence–function relationships from deep mutational scanning data

S Gelman, SA Fahlberg… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The mapping from protein sequence to function is highly complex, making it challenging to
predict how sequence changes will affect a protein's behavior and properties. We present a …

Sequence-based prediction of protein-protein interactions: a structure-aware interpretable deep learning model

S Sledzieski, R Singh, L Cowen, B Berger - BioRxiv, 2021 - biorxiv.org
Protein-protein interaction (PPI) networks have proven to be a valuable tool in systems
biology to facilitate the discovery and understanding of protein function. Unfortunately …

Transformer neural networks for protein family and interaction prediction tasks

A Nambiar, S Liu, M Heflin, JM Forsyth… - Journal of …, 2023 - liebertpub.com
The scientific community is rapidly generating protein sequence information, but only a
fraction of these proteins can be experimentally characterized. While promising deep …

A patent-based consideration of latest platforms in the art of directed evolution: A decade long untold story

Z Iqbal, S Sadaf - Biotechnology and Genetic Engineering Reviews, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Directed (or in vitro) evolution of proteins and metabolic pathways requires tools for creating
genetic diversity and identifying protein variants with new or improved functional properties …

XENet: Using a new graph convolution to accelerate the timeline for protein design on quantum computers

JB Maguire, D Grattarola, VK Mulligan… - PLoS computational …, 2021 - journals.plos.org
Graph representations are traditionally used to represent protein structures in sequence
design protocols in which the protein backbone conformation is known. This infrequently …