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ProtoCol model enhances protein homolog search using late interaction

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Researchers have developed ProtoCol, a novel model designed to improve protein homolog search, particularly in challenging "twilight zone" scenarios where sequence similarity is low. ProtoCol utilizes residue-level embeddings and a late interaction approach, inspired by ColBERT, to better identify remote homologies. This method outperforms existing sequence-composition, alignment-based, and pooled protein language model baselines on key benchmarks. AI

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ProtoCol model enhances protein homolog search using late interaction

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Gabrielle Cohn, Rohan Gumaste, Minh Hoang, Vihan Lakshman ·

    PROTOCOL: Late Interaction Retrieval for Protein Homolog Search

    arXiv:2605.29158v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Protein homology search underlies function annotation, structure prediction, and evolutionary analysis, but remains challenging in the "twilight zone," where global sequence similarity is weak and classical alignment methods lose se…

  2. arXiv cs.IR (Information Retrieval) TIER_1 English(EN) · Vihan Lakshman ·

    PROTOCOL: Late Interaction Retrieval for Protein Homolog Search

    Protein homology search underlies function annotation, structure prediction, and evolutionary analysis, but remains challenging in the "twilight zone," where global sequence similarity is weak and classical alignment methods lose sensitivity. Protein language models provide conte…

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