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Poster

KW-Design: Pushing the Limit of Protein Design via Knowledge Refinement

Zhangyang Gao · Cheng Tan · Xingran Chen · Yijie Zhang · Jun Xia · Siyuan Li · Stan Z Li

Halle B #42
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Fri 10 May 1:45 a.m. PDT — 3:45 a.m. PDT

Abstract:

Recent studies have shown competitive performance in protein inverse folding, while most of them disregard the importance of predictive confidence, fail to cover the vast protein space, and do not incorporate common protein knowledge. Given the great success of pretrained models on diverse protein-related tasks and the fact that recovery is highly correlated with confidence, we wonder whether this knowledge can push the limits of protein design further. As a solution, we propose a knowledge-aware module that refines low-quality residues. We also introduce a memory-retrieval mechanism to save more than 50\% of the training time. We extensively evaluate our proposed method on the CATH, TS50, TS500, and PDB datasets and our results show that our KW-Design method outperforms the previous PiFold method by approximately 9\% on the CATH dataset. KW-Design is the first method that achieves 60+\% recovery on all these benchmarks. We also provide additional analysis to demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method. The code is publicly available via \href{https://github.com/A4Bio/ProteinInvBench}{GitHub}.

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