Nature Communications (Nov 2021)

The generative capacity of probabilistic protein sequence models

  • Francisco McGee,
  • Sandro Hauri,
  • Quentin Novinger,
  • Slobodan Vucetic,
  • Ronald M. Levy,
  • Vincenzo Carnevale,
  • Allan Haldane

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26529-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Generative models have become increasingly popular in protein design, yet rigorous metrics that allow the comparison of these models are lacking. Here, the authors propose a set of such metrics and use them to compare three popular models.