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COLOR: A Compositional Linear Operation-Based Representation of Protein Sequences for Identification of Monomer Contributions to Properties.
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2025.12.03
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Abstract
The properties of biological materials like proteins and nucleic acids are largely determined by their primary sequence. Certain segments in the sequence strongly influence specific functions, but identifying these segments, or so-called motifs, is challenging due to the complexity of sequential data. While deep learning (DL) models can accurately capture sequence-property relationships, the degree of nonlinearity in these models limits the assessment of monomer contributions to a property─a critical step in identifying key motifs. Recent advances in explainable AI (XAI) offer attention and gradient-based methods for estimating monomeric contributions. However, these methods are primarily applied to classification tasks, such as binding site identification, where they achieve limited accuracy (40-45%) and rely on qualitative evaluations. To address these limitations, we introduce a DL model with interpretable steps, enabling direct tracing of monomeric contributions. Inspired by the masking technique commonly used in vision and natural language processing domains, we propose a new metric (I) for quantitative analysis on datasets mainly containing distinct properties of anticancer peptides (ACP), antimicrobial peptides (AMP), and collagen. Our model exhibits 22% higher explainability than the gradient and attention-based state-of-the-art models, recognizes critical motifs (RRR, RRI, and RSS) that significantly destabilize ACPs, and identifies motifs in AMPs that are 50% more effective in converting non-AMPs to AMPs. These findings highlight the potential of our model in guiding mutation strategies for designing protein-based biomaterials.
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COLOR: A Compositional Linear Operation-Based Representation of Protein Sequences for Identification of Monomer Contributions to Properties
Akash Pandey,Wei Chen,Sinan KetenJournal of Chemical Information and Modeling2025
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Protein sequence analysis
Machine learning
Protein sites, features and motifs
Sequence analysis
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Genomics
Proteomics
Systems Biology & Omics
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