RDesign: Hierarchical Data-efficient Representation Learning for Tertiary Structure-based RNA Design

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Main Authors: Tan, Cheng, Zhang, Yijie, Gao, Zhangyang, Hu, Bozhen, Li, Siyuan, Liu, Zicheng, Li, Stan Z.
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author Tan, Cheng
Zhang, Yijie
Gao, Zhangyang
Hu, Bozhen
Li, Siyuan
Liu, Zicheng
Li, Stan Z.
author_facet Tan, Cheng
Zhang, Yijie
Gao, Zhangyang
Hu, Bozhen
Li, Siyuan
Liu, Zicheng
Li, Stan Z.
contents While artificial intelligence has made remarkable strides in revealing the relationship between biological macromolecules' primary sequence and tertiary structure, designing RNA sequences based on specified tertiary structures remains challenging. Though existing approaches in protein design have thoroughly explored structure-to-sequence dependencies in proteins, RNA design still confronts difficulties due to structural complexity and data scarcity. Moreover, direct transplantation of protein design methodologies into RNA design fails to achieve satisfactory outcomes although sharing similar structural components. In this study, we aim to systematically construct a data-driven RNA design pipeline. We crafted a large, well-curated benchmark dataset and designed a comprehensive structural modeling approach to represent the complex RNA tertiary structure. More importantly, we proposed a hierarchical data-efficient representation learning framework that learns structural representations through contrastive learning at both cluster-level and sample-level to fully leverage the limited data. By constraining data representations within a limited hyperspherical space, the intrinsic relationships between data points could be explicitly imposed. Moreover, we incorporated extracted secondary structures with base pairs as prior knowledge to facilitate the RNA design process. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method, providing a reliable baseline for future RNA design tasks. The source code and benchmark dataset are available at https://github.com/A4Bio/RDesign.
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spellingShingle RDesign: Hierarchical Data-efficient Representation Learning for Tertiary Structure-based RNA Design
Tan, Cheng
Zhang, Yijie
Gao, Zhangyang
Hu, Bozhen
Li, Siyuan
Liu, Zicheng
Li, Stan Z.
Biomolecules
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
While artificial intelligence has made remarkable strides in revealing the relationship between biological macromolecules' primary sequence and tertiary structure, designing RNA sequences based on specified tertiary structures remains challenging. Though existing approaches in protein design have thoroughly explored structure-to-sequence dependencies in proteins, RNA design still confronts difficulties due to structural complexity and data scarcity. Moreover, direct transplantation of protein design methodologies into RNA design fails to achieve satisfactory outcomes although sharing similar structural components. In this study, we aim to systematically construct a data-driven RNA design pipeline. We crafted a large, well-curated benchmark dataset and designed a comprehensive structural modeling approach to represent the complex RNA tertiary structure. More importantly, we proposed a hierarchical data-efficient representation learning framework that learns structural representations through contrastive learning at both cluster-level and sample-level to fully leverage the limited data. By constraining data representations within a limited hyperspherical space, the intrinsic relationships between data points could be explicitly imposed. Moreover, we incorporated extracted secondary structures with base pairs as prior knowledge to facilitate the RNA design process. Extensive experiments demonstrate the effectiveness of our proposed method, providing a reliable baseline for future RNA design tasks. The source code and benchmark dataset are available at https://github.com/A4Bio/RDesign.
title RDesign: Hierarchical Data-efficient Representation Learning for Tertiary Structure-based RNA Design
topic Biomolecules
Artificial Intelligence
Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.10774