Opportunities and challenges for machine learning-assisted enzyme engineering

J Yang, FZ Li, FH Arnold - ACS Central Science, 2024 - ACS Publications
Enzymes can be engineered at the level of their amino acid sequences to optimize key
properties such as expression, stability, substrate range, and catalytic efficiency─ or even to …

A guide to artificial intelligence for cancer researchers

R Perez-Lopez, N Ghaffari Laleh, F Mahmood… - Nature Reviews …, 2024 - nature.com
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been commoditized. It has evolved from a specialty resource to
a readily accessible tool for cancer researchers. AI-based tools can boost research …

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database in 2024: providing structure coverage for over 214 million protein sequences

M Varadi, D Bertoni, P Magana, U Paramval… - Nucleic acids …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
Abstract The AlphaFold Database Protein Structure Database (AlphaFold DB,
https://alphafold. ebi. ac. uk) has significantly impacted structural biology by amassing over …

Prediction-powered inference

AN Angelopoulos, S Bates, C Fannjiang, MI Jordan… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Prediction-powered inference is a framework for performing valid statistical inference when
an experimental dataset is supplemented with predictions from a machine-learning system …

Uncovering new families and folds in the natural protein universe

J Durairaj, AM Waterhouse, T Mets, T Brodiazhenko… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
We are now entering a new era in protein sequence and structure annotation, with hundreds
of millions of predicted protein structures made available through the AlphaFold database …

Bilingual language model for protein sequence and structure

M Heinzinger, K Weissenow, JG Sanchez, A Henkel… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Advanced Artificial Intelligence (AI) enabled large language models (LLMs) to revolutionize
Natural Language Processing (NLP). Their adaptation to protein sequences spawned the …

Deep learning for protein structure prediction and design—progress and applications

J Jänes, P Beltrao - Molecular Systems Biology, 2024 - embopress.org
Proteins are the key molecular machines that orchestrate all biological processes of the cell.
Most proteins fold into three-dimensional shapes that are critical for their function. Studying …

The immune modules conserved across the tree of life: Towards a definition of ancestral immunity

A Bernheim, J Cury, EZ Poirier - Plos Biology, 2024 - journals.plos.org
Immune defence mechanisms exist across the tree of life in such diversity that prokaryotic
antiviral responses have historically been considered unrelated to eukaryotic immunity …

[HTML][HTML] Integrating cellular electron microscopy with multimodal data to explore biology across space and time

CL McCafferty, S Klumpe, RE Amaro, W Kukulski… - Cell, 2024 - cell.com
Biology spans a continuum of length and time scales. Individual experimental methods only
glimpse discrete pieces of this spectrum but can be combined to construct a more holistic …

Random, de novo, and conserved proteins: how structure and disorder predictors perform differently

L Middendorf, LA Eicholt - Proteins: Structure, Function, and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Understanding the emergence and structural characteristics of de novo and random proteins
is crucial for unraveling protein evolution and designing novel enzymes. However …