Artificial intelligence-aided protein engineering: from topological data analysis to deep protein language models

Y Qiu, GW Wei - Briefings in bioinformatics, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Protein engineering is an emerging field in biotechnology that has the potential to
revolutionize various areas, such as antibody design, drug discovery, food security, ecology …

Methodology-centered review of molecular modeling, simulation, and prediction of SARS-CoV-2

K Gao, R Wang, J Chen, L Cheng, J Frishcosy… - Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Despite tremendous efforts in the past two years, our understanding of severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), virus–host interactions, immune …

Multiscale topology-enabled structure-to-sequence transformer for protein–ligand interaction predictions

D Chen, J Liu, GW Wei - Nature Machine Intelligence, 2024 - nature.com
Despite the success of pretrained natural language processing (NLP) models in various
fields, their application in computational biology has been hindered by their reliance on …

Persistent spectral theory-guided protein engineering

Y Qiu, GW Wei - Nature computational science, 2023 - nature.com
Although protein engineering, which iteratively optimizes protein fitness by screening the
gigantic mutational space, is constrained by experimental capacity, various machine …

Persistent Laplacian projected Omicron BA. 4 and BA. 5 to become new dominating variants

J Chen, Y Qiu, R Wang, GW Wei - Computers in Biology and Medicine, 2022 - Elsevier
Due to its high transmissibility, Omicron BA. 1 ousted the Delta variant to become a
dominating variant in late 2021 and was replaced by more transmissible Omicron BA. 2 in …

Persistent spectral–based machine learning (PerSpect ML) for protein-ligand binding affinity prediction

Z Meng, K **a - Science advances, 2021 - science.org
Molecular descriptors are essential to not only quantitative structure-activity relationship
(QSAR) models but also machine learning–based material, chemical, and biological data …

Evaluation of AlphaFold 3's protein–protein complexes for predicting binding free energy changes upon mutation

JJ Wee, GW Wei - Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2024 - ACS Publications
AlphaFold 3 (AF3), the latest version of protein structure prediction software, goes beyond its
predecessors by predicting protein–protein complexes. It could revolutionize drug discovery …

Persistent Laplacians: Properties, algorithms and implications

F Mémoli, Z Wan, Y Wang - SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, 2022 - SIAM
We present a thorough study of the theoretical properties and devise efficient algorithms for
the persistent Laplacian, an extension of the standard combinatorial Laplacian to the setting …

Ollivier persistent Ricci curvature-based machine learning for the protein–ligand binding affinity prediction

JJ Wee, K **a - Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling, 2021 - ACS Publications
Efficient molecular featurization is one of the major issues for machine learning models in
drug design. Here, we propose a persistent Ricci curvature (PRC), in particular, Ollivier PRC …

Persistent Dirac for molecular representation

JJ Wee, G Bianconi, K **a - Scientific Reports, 2023 - nature.com
Molecular representations are of fundamental importance for the modeling and analysing
molecular systems. The successes in drug design and materials discovery have been …