AI challenges for predicting the impact of mutations on protein stability

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2111.04208v1
• Date: Mon, 8 Nov 2021 00:10:56 GMT
• Title: AI challenges for predicting the impact of mutations on protein stability
• Authors: Fabrizio Pucci, Martin Schwersensky, Marianne Rooman
• Abstract summary: Many studies have been devoted to building new, more effective methods for predicting the impact of mutations on protein stability. We discuss their features, algorithms, computational efficiency, and accuracy estimated on an independent test set. We found that the accuracy of the predictors has stagnated at around 1 kcal/mol for over 15 years.
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• License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
• Abstract: Stability is a key ingredient of protein fitness and its modification through targeted mutations has applications in various fields such as protein engineering, drug design and deleterious variant interpretation. Many studies have been devoted over the past decades to building new, more effective methods for predicting the impact of mutations on protein stability, based on the latest developments in artificial intelligence (AI). We discuss their features, algorithms, computational efficiency, and accuracy estimated on an independent test set. We focus on a critical analysis of their limitations, the recurrent biases towards the training set, their generalizability and interpretability. We found that the accuracy of the predictors has stagnated at around 1 kcal/mol for over 15 years. We conclude by discussing the challenges that need to be addressed to reach improved performance.

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