A general language model for peptide function identification

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Autores principales: Zhai, Jixiu, Wang, Zikun, Tang, Chupei, Zhong, Haitian, Xu, Ziyang, Liu, Yuhuan, Xu, Shengrui, Wang, Jingwan, Huang, Dan, Lu, Tianchi
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author Zhai, Jixiu
Wang, Zikun
Tang, Chupei
Zhong, Haitian
Xu, Ziyang
Liu, Yuhuan
Xu, Shengrui
Wang, Jingwan
Huang, Dan
Lu, Tianchi
author_facet Zhai, Jixiu
Wang, Zikun
Tang, Chupei
Zhong, Haitian
Xu, Ziyang
Liu, Yuhuan
Xu, Shengrui
Wang, Jingwan
Huang, Dan
Lu, Tianchi
contents Accurate identification of bioactive peptides (BPs) and protein post-translational modifications (PTMs) is essential for understanding protein function and advancing therapeutic discovery. However, most computational methods remain limited in their generalizability across diverse peptide functions. Here, we present PDeepPP, a unified deep learning framework that integrates pretrained protein language models with a hybrid transformer-CNN architecture, enabling robust identification across diverse peptide classes and PTM sites. We curated comprehensive benchmark datasets and implemented strategies to address data imbalance, allowing PDeepPP to systematically extract both global and local sequence features. Through extensive analyses including dimensionality reduction and comparison studies, PDeepPP demonstrates strong, interpretable peptide representations and achieves state-of-the-art performance in 25 of the 33 biological identification tasks. Notably, PDeepPP attains high accuracy in antimicrobial (0.9726) and phosphorylation site (0.9984) identification, with 99.5% specificity in glycosylation site prediction and substantial reduction in false negatives in antimalarial tasks. By enabling large-scale, accurate peptide analysis, PDeepPP supports biomedical research and the discovery of novel therapeutic targets for disease treatment. All code, datasets, and pretrained models are publicly available via GitHub (https://github.com/fondress/PDeepPP) and Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/fondress/PDeppPP)
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spellingShingle A general language model for peptide function identification
Zhai, Jixiu
Wang, Zikun
Tang, Chupei
Zhong, Haitian
Xu, Ziyang
Liu, Yuhuan
Xu, Shengrui
Wang, Jingwan
Huang, Dan
Lu, Tianchi
Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
92C40, 68T07
I.2.6; J.3
Accurate identification of bioactive peptides (BPs) and protein post-translational modifications (PTMs) is essential for understanding protein function and advancing therapeutic discovery. However, most computational methods remain limited in their generalizability across diverse peptide functions. Here, we present PDeepPP, a unified deep learning framework that integrates pretrained protein language models with a hybrid transformer-CNN architecture, enabling robust identification across diverse peptide classes and PTM sites. We curated comprehensive benchmark datasets and implemented strategies to address data imbalance, allowing PDeepPP to systematically extract both global and local sequence features. Through extensive analyses including dimensionality reduction and comparison studies, PDeepPP demonstrates strong, interpretable peptide representations and achieves state-of-the-art performance in 25 of the 33 biological identification tasks. Notably, PDeepPP attains high accuracy in antimicrobial (0.9726) and phosphorylation site (0.9984) identification, with 99.5% specificity in glycosylation site prediction and substantial reduction in false negatives in antimalarial tasks. By enabling large-scale, accurate peptide analysis, PDeepPP supports biomedical research and the discovery of novel therapeutic targets for disease treatment. All code, datasets, and pretrained models are publicly available via GitHub (https://github.com/fondress/PDeepPP) and Hugging Face (https://huggingface.co/fondress/PDeppPP)
title A general language model for peptide function identification
topic Machine Learning
Artificial Intelligence
92C40, 68T07
I.2.6; J.3
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.15610