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Alexander Rives

5 accepted papers

2022

Learning inverse folding from millions of predicted structures

ICML 2022oral

We consider the problem of predicting a protein sequence from its backbone atom coordinates. Machine learning approaches to this problem to date have been limited by the number of available experimentally determined protein structures. We augment training data by nearly three orders of magnitude by…

2021

Language models enable zero-shot prediction of the effects of mutations on protein function

NeurIPS 2021poster

Modeling the effect of sequence variation on function is a fundamental problem for understanding and designing proteins. Since evolution encodes information about function into patterns in protein sequences, unsupervised models of variant effects can be learned from sequence data. The approach to da…

2021

Transformer protein language models are unsupervised structure learners

ICLR 2021poster

Unsupervised contact prediction is central to uncovering physical, structural, and functional constraints for protein structure determination and design. For decades, the predominant approach has been to infer evolutionary constraints from a set of related sequences. In the past year, protein langua…

Cited by 380SourcePDFScholar
2020

Energy-based models for atomic-resolution protein conformations

ICLR 2020spotlight

We propose an energy-based model (EBM) of protein conformations that operates at atomic scale. The model is trained solely on crystallized protein data. By contrast, existing approaches for scoring conformations use energy functions that incorporate knowledge of physical principles and features that…

Cited by 64SourcecodeScholar