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DSM-Distil
Prior knowledge facilitates low homologous protein secondary structure prediction with DSM distillation.
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2026.05.15
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Protein secondary structure prediction (PSSP) is one of the fundamental and challenging problems in the field of computational biology. Accurate PSSP relies on sufficient homologous protein sequences to build the multiple sequence alignment (MSA). Unfortunately, many proteins lack homologous sequences, which results in the low quality of MSA and poor performance. In this article, we propose the novel dynamic scoring matrix (DSM)-Distil to tackle this issue, which takes advantage of the pretrained BERT and exploits the knowledge distillation on the newly designed DSM features. Specifically, we propose the DSM to replace the widely used profile and PSSM (position-specific scoring matrix) features. DSM could automatically dig for the suitable feature for each residue, based on the original profile. Namely, DSM-Distil not only could adapt to the low homologous proteins but also is compatible with high homologous ones. Thanks to the dynamic property, DSM could adapt to the input data much better and achieve higher performance. Moreover, to compensate for low-quality MSA, we propose to generate the pseudo-DSM from a pretrained BERT model and aggregate it with the original DSM by adaptive residue-wise fusion, which helps to build richer and more complete input features. In addition, we propose to supervise the learning of low-quality DSM features using high-quality ones. To achieve this, a novel teacher-student model is designed to distill the knowledge from proteins with high homologous sequences to that of low ones. Combining all the proposed methods, our model achieves the new state-of-the-art performance for low homologous proteins.;Compared with the previous state-of-the-art method 'Bagging', DSM-Distil achieves an improvement about 5% and 7.3% improvement for proteins with MSA count ≤30 and extremely low homologous cases, respectively. We also compare DSM-Distil with Alphafold2 which is a state-of-the-art framework for protein structure prediction. DSM-Distil outperforms Alphafold2 by 4.1% on extremely low-quality MSA on 8-state secondary structure prediction. Moreover, we release a large-scale up-to-date test dataset BC40 for low-quality MSA structure prediction evaluation.;BC40 dataset: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/15vwRoOjAkhhwfjDk6-YoKGf4JzZXIMC. HardCase dataset: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1BvduOr2b7cObUHy6GuEWk-aUkKJgzTUv. Code: https://github.com/qinwang-ai/DSM-Distil.
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Prior knowledge facilitates low homologous protein secondary structure prediction with DSM distillation
Prior knowledge facilitates low homologous protein secondary structure prediction with DSM distillationBIOINFORMATICS2022
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Protein secondary structure prediction
Sequence analysis
Machine learning
Protein sequence analysis
Protein feature detection
Systems Biology & Omics
Proteomics
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