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Structure-aware protein sequence alignment using contrastive learning

You, R.; Yi, Y.; Zhu, S.

2024-03-11 bioinformatics Community evaluation
10.1101/2024.03.09.583681 bioRxiv
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Protein alignment is a critical process in bioinformatics and molecular biology. Despite structure-based alignment methods being able to achieve desirable performance, only a very small number of structures are available among the vast of known protein sequences. Therefore, developing an efficient and effective sequence-based protein alignment method is of significant importance. In this study, we propose CLAlign, which is a structure-aware sequence-based protein alignment method by using contrastive learning. Experimental results show that CLAlign outperforms the state-of-the-art methods by at least 12.5% and 24.5% on two common benchmarks, Malidup and Malisam.

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