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Sima Ataei

Concordia UniversityORCID 0000-0003-3440-4559Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Approach:deep learning· 2 Assay:protein sequence· 2 Research Focus:protein structure prediction· 1 Approach:transformer / foundation model· 1

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Gregory ButleriD· 2 shared

Activity by Year

2022-2025 · peak 1/yr

2 papers

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BioinformaticsbioRxivPreprintNov 13, 2025

TooTranslator: Zero-Shot Classification of Specific Substrates for Transport Proteins by Language Embedding Alignment of Proteins and Chemicals

Sima Ataei, Gregory Butler

TooTranslator uses language embedding alignment to predict substrates of transport proteins, achieving 80% accuracy with top-100 predictions for unseen substrates.

DOI 10.1101/2025.11.13.688294

protein sequencedeep learning

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BioinformaticsIEEE Conference on Computational Intelligence in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology (CIBCB)Peer-reviewedAug 15, 2022

Predicting the specific substrate for transmembrane transport proteins using BERT language model

Sima Ataei, Gregory Butler

The paper uses a fine-tuned BERT model to predict specific substrates of transmembrane transport proteins with high accuracy.

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protein sequencedeep learning

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