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1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Evolution and Genetic Dynamics

   Informed training set design enables efficient machine learning-assisted directed protein evolution

   Wittmann, Yue and Arnold · Cell Systems · 2021

   The authors tested and optimised a machine learning protocol that screens full combinatorial protein libraries in silico, and it found the best variant far more often than single-step greedy optimisation.

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   1. UncheckedReducing "holes", variants with zero or very low fitness, in training data was the most important factor for machine learning-assisted directed protein evolution.“In particular, we evaluate the importance of different protein encoding strategies, training procedures, models, and training set design strategies on MLDE outcome, finding the most important consideration to be the implementation of strategies that reduce inclusion of minimally informative "holes"…”
   2. UncheckedOn one epistatic, hole-filled four-site fitness landscape, the optimised ML protocol reached the best variant up to 81 times more often than greedy optimisation.“When applied to an epistatic, hole-filled, four-site combinatorial fitness landscape, our optimized protocol achieved the global fitness maximum up to 81-fold more frequently than single-step greedy optimization.”