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Rosa Fernández1, Sergi Valverde1, Aureliano Bombarely2

  • 1Institute of Evolutionary Biology (CSIC-UPF), Barcelona, Spain.

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Protein language models create embeddings that capture evolutionary data. This enables new geometric analyses of protein relationships, merging molecular evolution with embedding techniques.

Keywords:
deep learningevolutionary bioinformaticsgenomicsmachine learningphylogeneticsprotein language models

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Area of Science:

  • Computational biology
  • Bioinformatics
  • Evolutionary biology

Background:

  • Protein language models (PLMs) generate high-dimensional embeddings from protein sequences.
  • These embeddings implicitly learn biochemical, structural, and functional constraints without supervised labels.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To demonstrate that protein embeddings encode significant evolutionary information.
  • To introduce novel geometry-based methods for analyzing protein evolution using these embeddings.
  • To advocate for integrating evolutionary embedding analysis with classical molecular evolution.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of protein sequence embeddings generated by unsupervised language models.
  • Application of geometric and topological methods to visualize and quantify evolutionary relationships.
  • Comparison of embedding-based evolutionary insights with traditional phylogenetic approaches.

    • Main Results:

    • Protein embeddings reveal rich evolutionary signals, including homology, divergence, and convergence.
    • Geometric analysis of embeddings provides new perspectives on evolutionary trajectories.
    • Embeddings capture complex evolutionary patterns not readily apparent through conventional methods.

    Conclusions:

    • Protein language model embeddings are a powerful resource for evolutionary analysis.
    • A synthesis of evolutionary embedding analysis and molecular evolution is proposed.
    • This approach offers novel tools for understanding protein evolution and diversification.