Automatically Defining Protein Words for Diverse Functional Predictions Based on Attention Analysis of a Protein Language Model
Hedi Chen, Jingrui Zhong, Xiaochun Zhang, Jingke Chen, Lin Guo, Xiaoliang Xiong, Xiaonan Zhang, Xiangyu Liu, Bailong Xiao, Boxue Tian
The paper introduces a toolkit using protein language models to define 'protein words' for functional prediction, outperforming motif-based methods across multiple tasks.
Advanced Science · Feb 5, 2026Peer-reviewedBioinformatics