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2 claims from 2 papers

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

   Language models enable zero-shot prediction of the effects of mutations on protein function

   Meier, Rao, Verkuil, Liu, Sercu and Rives · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021

   The paper shows that protein language models can predict how sequence changes affect function without task-specific training, rather than fitting a new model to each family of related sequences.

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   1. UncheckedProtein language models, used zero-shot with no experimental data or extra training, predict the functional effects of sequence variation at state-of-the-art level.“We show that using only zero-shot inference, without any supervision from experimental data or additional training, protein language models capture the functional effects of sequence variation, performing at state-of-the-art.”

2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genomics and Rare Diseases

   Deep mutational scanning: a new style of protein science

   Fowler and Fields · Nature Methods · 2014

   A review describing deep mutational scanning, which tests up to a million protein variants in one experiment, and the challenges that must be tackled for it to fulfil its promise.

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   1. UncheckedDeep mutational scanning produces large data sets that can reveal protein properties, behaviour in cells and the effects of human genetic variants.“This approach-'deep mutational scanning'-yields large-scale data sets that can reveal intrinsic protein properties, protein behavior within cells and the consequences of human genetic variation.”