Title
ProteinBERT: a universal deep-learning model of protein sequence and function
Abstract
Self-supervised deep language modeling has shown unprecedented success across natural language tasks, and has recently been repurposed to biological sequences. However, existing models and pretraining methods are designed and optimized for text analysis. We introduce ProteinBERT, a deep language model specifically designed for proteins. Our pretraining scheme combines language modeling with a novel task of Gene Ontology (GO) annotation prediction. We introduce novel architectural elements that make the model highly efficient and flexible to long sequences. The architecture of ProteinBERT consists of both local and global representations, allowing end-to-end processing of these types of inputs and outputs. ProteinBERT obtains near state-of-the-art performance, and sometimes exceeds it, on multiple benchmarks covering diverse protein properties (including protein structure, post-translational modifications and biophysical attributes), despite using a far smaller and faster model than competing deep-learning methods. Overall, ProteinBERT provides an efficient framework for rapidly training protein predictors, even with limited labeled data.
Year
DOI
Venue
2022
10.1093/bioinformatics/btac020
BIOINFORMATICS
Keywords
DocType
Volume
NLP,TAPE,attention,neural language model,protein language model,self-supervised learning,transformer
Journal
38
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
1367-4803
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.40
0
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Nadav Brandes120.40
Dan Ofer220.40
Yam Peleg320.40
Nadav Rappoport420.40
Michal Linial51502149.92