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Welcome back to your weekly dose of AI news for Life Science!
This week, we have some exciting new models lined up for you:
ProCyon: Multimodal foundation model to predict protein phenotypes 🔬
MOOSE-Chem: Large Language Models for Rediscovering Unseen Chemistry Scientific Hypotheses ⚗️
Dockformer: Fast and accurate docking model for small molecules 🧬
Dive into these game-changing innovations and explore how they are transforming the biotech and healthcare landscapes!
ProCyon: Multimodal foundation model to predict protein phenotypes 🔬
Predicting protein structure is advanced, but predicting protein phenotypes—observable traits linking molecular function to biology—is still an open problem. 40% of human proteins lack context-specific insights, while 20% remain entirely uncharacterized. Introducing ProCyon, a foundation model for modeling, generat5 ing, and predicting protein phenotypes
📌 Key Insights:
ProCyon integrates multiple data modalities (protein sequences, structures, and natural language) and predicts protein phenotypes across five interrelated knowledge domains: molecular functions, therapeutic mechanisms, disease associations, functional protein domains, and molecular inter7 actions
ProCyon supports a variety of use cases:
Understands the phenotype of uncharacterised proteins (e.g the role of AKNAD1 in Parkinson's
Separates binders vs. non-binders peptides for ACE2
Models functional impacts of mutations, distinguishing benign vs. pathogenic changes (PSEN1 in Alzheimer’s)
Provides insights into therapeutic mechanisms in a disease-specific manner
Authors released PROCYON-INSTRUCT, a dataset of ~34 million protein phenotype instructions, representing a comprehensive resource for multiscale protein phenotypes.
MOOSE-Chem: Large Language Models for Rediscovering Unseen Chemistry Scientific Hypotheses ⚗️
Large Language Models (LLMs) are increasingly being used in the scientific community to assist researchers in various tasks, such as summarizing articles or translating texts. However, the question remains: could they be used for more complex tasks, such as identifying new hypotheses based on previous research backgrounds and inspirations ? To provide a clear answer to this exciting topic, let’s introduce MOOSE-Chem, an LLM multi-agent designed to address this issue, which has shown very promising results. This approach paves the way for new innovations in the close future of scientific research.
📌 Key Insights:
Developed MOOSE-CHEM, a multi-agent framework tailored for rediscovering high-impact chemistry hypotheses.
Tested on a benchmark from 51 high-profile chemistry papers, published in top journals like Nature Magazine and Science.
Demonstrated how LLMs can rediscover hypotheses with remarkable accuracy, often matching or complementing key innovations in modern chemistry.
Dockformer: Fast and accurate docking model for small molecules 🧬
Another week, another docking tool! Molecular docking is a crucial step in drug development, which enables the virtual screening of compound libraries to identify potential ligands that target proteins of interest. However, the computational complexity of traditional docking models increases as the size of the compound library increases, while deep-learning models are not as accurate and are overall slow in predicting the docking. Introducing Dockformer, a new deep learning model that leverages multimodal information to capture the geometric topology and structural knowledge of molecules.
📌 Key Insights:
Dockformer achieves very high success rate (success rates of 90.53% and 82.71% on the PDBbind core set and PoseBusters benchmarks) while delivering a 100-fold increase speed, outperforming almost all state-of-the-art docking methods.
The accuracy of Dockformer was validated by identifying the main protease inhibitors of coronaviruses in a real-world virtual screening scenario
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