Sequence determinants of protein phase separation and recognition by protein phase-separated condensates through molecular dynamics and active learning
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Elucidating how protein sequence determines the properties of disordered proteins and their phase-separated condensates is a great challenge in computational chemistry, biology, and biophysics. Quantitative molecular dynamics simulations and derived free energy values can in principle capture how a sequence encodes the chemical and biological properties of a protein. These calculations are, however, computationally demanding, even after reducing the representation by coarse-graining; exploring the large spaces of potentially relevant sequences remains a formidable task. We employ an “active learning” scheme introduced by Yang et al. (bioRxiv, 2022, https://doi.org/10.1101/2022.08.05.502972) to reduce the number of labelled examples needed from simulations, where a neural network-based model suggests the most useful examples for the next training cycle. Applying this Bayesian optimisation framework, we determine properties of protein sequences with coarse-grained molecular dynamics, which enables the network t
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Faraday discussions, Version of Record (VoR), Royal Society of Chemistry, Cambridge, 2024, https://doi.org/10.1039/D4FD00099D