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Weixia Deng

Iowa State UniversityORCID 0009-0008-5073-1967Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Organism:human· 2 Assay:protein sequence· 2 Approach:statistical model· 2 Research Focus:cell type annotation· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Assay:protein structure· 1

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GenomicsbioRxivPreprintMay 31, 2026

New Protein Function Characterization for Human Paralog Discovery, Scraping the Bottom of the Genomics Barrel

Pradeep BK, Weixia Deng, Robert L. Jernigan

The paper develops a framework to discover new protein paralogs by integrating sequence, structure, and embedding-based methods with family-specific models, identifying 7 new protease and 3 new kinase paralogs.

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humanprotein sequence

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GenomicsbioRxivPreprintOct 15, 2025

Large Numbers of New Human Paralogs Discovered

Pradeep BK, Weixia Deng, Mahsa Askary Hemmat…·Robert L. Jernigan

The paper identifies many new human paralogs using a combined sequence, structure, and language model approach, validating catalytic residues and expanding protein functional understanding.

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humanprotein structure

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