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1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

   Inferring context-specific site variation with evotuned protein language models

   Lytras, Strange, Ito and Sato · NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics · 2026

   The authors built an entropy metric from protein language model embeddings to assess site conservation and variability, and tested it on ESM-2 and protT5 models fine-tuned on influenza A hemagglutinin diversity.

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   1. UncheckedA protein language model entropy metric can flag which sites are likelier to change in a given sequence, and fine-tuning on related proteins may improve it.“Our study demonstrates how our pLM entropy metric can capture which sites are more likely to change in a specific sequence context and how fine-tuning pLMs on a set of evolutionarily related proteins (evotuning) can improve the models’ understanding of the group’s diversity.”