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TUnA: an uncertainty-aware transformer model for sequence-based protein-protein interaction prediction.

Young Su Ko¹, Jonathan Parkinson¹, Cong Liu¹

¹Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093-0359, United States.

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We developed TUnA, a novel deep learning model for predicting protein-protein interactions (PPIs). TUnA accurately predicts interactions for new proteins and quantifies prediction reliability using uncertainty estimates.

Keywords:

deep learning protein–protein interaction prediction uncertainty awareness

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Computational Biology
Bioinformatics
Machine Learning

Background:

Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) are crucial for cellular functions.
Predicting PPIs from sequence data is challenging for current deep learning models.
Existing models struggle with generalization to unseen proteins and lack uncertainty quantification.

Purpose of the Study:

To develop an advanced deep learning model for accurate PPI prediction.
To enhance model generalization to novel protein sequences.
To provide reliable uncertainty estimates for PPI predictions.

Main Methods:

Utilized a Transformer-based architecture (TUnA).
Incorporated ESM-2 protein embeddings and Transformer encoders.
Integrated a Spectral-normalized Neural Gaussian Process for uncertainty estimation.

Main Results:

Achieved state-of-the-art performance in PPI prediction.
Successfully predicted interactions for unseen protein sequences.
Demonstrated that uncertainty estimates effectively reduce false positives.

Conclusions:

TUnA offers a robust solution for accurate and reliable PPI prediction.
Uncertainty quantification is key to improving the utility of computational predictions.
TUnA bridges the gap between computational predictions and experimental validation in PPI research.