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6 claims from 2 papers

1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

   Robust deep learning–based protein sequence design using ProteinMPNN

   Dauparas, Anishchenko, Bennett et al. · Science · 2022

   The paper describes ProteinMPNN, a deep learning method for designing protein sequences, and reports in silico and experimental tests including rescuing designs that had previously failed.

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   1. UncheckedOn native protein backbones, ProteinMPNN recovers 52.4% of the original amino acids, against 32.9% for the Rosetta software.“On native protein backbones, ProteinMPNN has a sequence recovery of 52.4% compared with 32.9% for Rosetta.”
   2. UncheckedIn ProteinMPNN, amino acid choices at different positions can be linked across one or several protein chains, so it can suit many protein design tasks.“The amino acid sequence at different positions can be coupled between single or multiple chains, enabling application to a wide range of current protein design challenges.”
   3. Unchecked“We demonstrate the broad utility and high accuracy of ProteinMPNN using x-ray crystallography, cryo–electron microscopy, and functional studies by rescuing previously failed designs, which were made using Rosetta or AlphaFold, of protein monomers, cyclic hom…

2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

   Unified rational protein engineering with sequence-based deep representation learning

   Alley, Khimulya, Biswas, AlQuraishi and Church · Nature Methods · 2019

   The authors trained deep learning on unlabelled amino-acid sequences to make a protein representation, UniRep, and report it predicts stability and function competitively and improves efficiency in a protein engineering task.

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   1. UncheckedSimple models built on UniRep, a learned summary of protein sequences, are said to work across many tasks and on unseen regions of sequence space.“We show that the simplest models built on top of this unified representation (UniRep) are broadly applicable and generalize to unseen regions of sequence space.”
   2. UncheckedA model trained on unlabelled protein sequences predicts protein stability and mutant function about as well as leading existing methods.“Our data-driven approach predicts the stability of natural and de novo designed proteins, and the quantitative function of molecularly diverse mutants, competitively with the state-of-the-art methods.”
   3. UncheckedThe paper states that UniRep, a learned summary of protein sequences, cut the effort needed in one protein engineering task by about a hundredfold.“UniRep further enables two orders of magnitude efficiency improvement in a protein engineering task.”