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A Protocol for Computer-Based Protein Structure and Function Prediction
Published on: November 3, 2011
High-Performance Deep Learning Toolbox for Genome-Scale Prediction of Protein Structure and Function
Mu Gao1, Peik Lund-Andersen2, Alex Morehead3
1Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA.
Abstract:
Computational biology is one of many scientific disciplines ripe for innovation and acceleration with the advent of high-performance computing (HPC). In recent years, the field of machine learning has also seen significant benefits from adopting HPC practices. In this work, we present a novel HPC pipeline that incorporates various machine-learning approaches for structure-based functional annotation of proteins on the scale of whole genomes. Our pipeline makes extensive use of deep learning and provides computational insights into best practices for training advanced deep-learning models for high-throughput data such as proteomics data. We showcase methodologies our pipeline currently supports and detail future tasks for our pipeline to envelop, including large-scale sequence comparison using SAdLSA and prediction of protein tertiary structures using AlphaFold2.
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