Modeling All-Atom Glycan Structures via Hierarchical Message Passing and Multi-Scale Pre-training

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Main Authors: Xu, Minghao, Song, Jiaze, Wu, Keming, Zhou, Xiangxin, Cui, Bin, Zhang, Wentao
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author Xu, Minghao
Song, Jiaze
Wu, Keming
Zhou, Xiangxin
Cui, Bin
Zhang, Wentao
author_facet Xu, Minghao
Song, Jiaze
Wu, Keming
Zhou, Xiangxin
Cui, Bin
Zhang, Wentao
contents Understanding the various properties of glycans with machine learning has shown some preliminary promise. However, previous methods mainly focused on modeling the backbone structure of glycans as graphs of monosaccharides (i.e., sugar units), while they neglected the atomic structures underlying each monosaccharide, which are actually important indicators of glycan properties. We fill this blank by introducing the GlycanAA model for All-Atom-wise Glycan modeling. GlycanAA models a glycan as a heterogeneous graph with monosaccharide nodes representing its global backbone structure and atom nodes representing its local atomic-level structures. Based on such a graph, GlycanAA performs hierarchical message passing to capture from local atomic-level interactions to global monosaccharide-level interactions. To further enhance model capability, we pre-train GlycanAA on a high-quality unlabeled glycan dataset, deriving the PreGlycanAA model. We design a multi-scale mask prediction algorithm to endow the model about different levels of dependencies in a glycan. Extensive benchmark results show the superiority of GlycanAA over existing glycan encoders and verify the further improvements achieved by PreGlycanAA. We maintain all resources at https://github.com/kasawa1234/GlycanAA
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spellingShingle Modeling All-Atom Glycan Structures via Hierarchical Message Passing and Multi-Scale Pre-training
Xu, Minghao
Song, Jiaze
Wu, Keming
Zhou, Xiangxin
Cui, Bin
Zhang, Wentao
Machine Learning
Understanding the various properties of glycans with machine learning has shown some preliminary promise. However, previous methods mainly focused on modeling the backbone structure of glycans as graphs of monosaccharides (i.e., sugar units), while they neglected the atomic structures underlying each monosaccharide, which are actually important indicators of glycan properties. We fill this blank by introducing the GlycanAA model for All-Atom-wise Glycan modeling. GlycanAA models a glycan as a heterogeneous graph with monosaccharide nodes representing its global backbone structure and atom nodes representing its local atomic-level structures. Based on such a graph, GlycanAA performs hierarchical message passing to capture from local atomic-level interactions to global monosaccharide-level interactions. To further enhance model capability, we pre-train GlycanAA on a high-quality unlabeled glycan dataset, deriving the PreGlycanAA model. We design a multi-scale mask prediction algorithm to endow the model about different levels of dependencies in a glycan. Extensive benchmark results show the superiority of GlycanAA over existing glycan encoders and verify the further improvements achieved by PreGlycanAA. We maintain all resources at https://github.com/kasawa1234/GlycanAA
title Modeling All-Atom Glycan Structures via Hierarchical Message Passing and Multi-Scale Pre-training
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.01376