Scoring alignments by embedding vector similarity
Sepehr Ashrafzadeh, Geoffrey Brian Golding, Silvana Ilie A, Lucian Ilie
The paper introduces a new amino acid similarity scoring method, E-score, based on contextual embeddings from deep learning, showing improved alignment quality compared to BLOSUM matrices.
Briefings in Bioinformatics · Mar 27, 2024Peer-reviewedBioinformatics