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A Protocol for Computer-Based Protein Structure and Function Prediction

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Protein FID: improved evaluation of protein structure generative models.

Felix Faltings¹, Hannes Stark¹, Tommi Jaakkola¹

¹CSAIL, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, United States.

Bioinformatics (Oxford, England)

|April 2, 2026

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We introduce a new metric, protein Frechet Inception Distance (FID), to evaluate protein structure generative models. This method assesses how well models capture the diversity of protein structures, revealing current models do not fully replicate the protein data bank distribution.

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Area of Science:

Computational biology
Structural bioinformatics
Machine learning in protein science

Background:

Generative models for protein structure are rapidly advancing.
Existing evaluation metrics do not fully assess the distributional coverage of model outputs.
A need exists for metrics that capture semantic similarity in protein structure generation.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose and validate a Frechet Inception Distance (FID) metric for evaluating protein structure generative models.
To assess the distributional similarity of generated protein structures within a meaningful latent space.
To benchmark current protein structure generative models against the Protein Data Bank distribution.

Main Methods:

Developed a protein-specific Frechet Inception Distance (FID) metric.
Utilized a semantically meaningful latent space for comparing protein structure distributions.
Correlated FID with optimal transport distances and hierarchical protein classifications (CATH).

Main Results:

The proposed protein FID metric demonstrates desirable behavior under structural perturbations.
FID successfully recapitulates known similarities between protein structures, aligning with FoldSeek clusters and the CATH hierarchy.
Current protein structure generative models, when evaluated with FID, show limitations in capturing the full distribution of Protein Data Bank (PDB) proteins.

Conclusions:

Protein FID offers a valuable supplement to existing metrics for evaluating protein structure generative models.
The metric provides insights into the distributional sampling capabilities of these models.
Further development and application of protein FID can drive progress in generative protein design.