Prot2Chat: Protein LLM with Early Fusion of Sequence and Structure

• URL: http://arxiv.org/abs/2502.06846v1
• Date: Fri, 07 Feb 2025 05:23:16 GMT
• Title: Prot2Chat: Protein LLM with Early Fusion of Sequence and Structure
• Authors: Zhicong Wang, Zicheng Ma, Ziqiang Cao, Changlong Zhou, Jun Zhang, Yiqin Gao,
• Abstract summary: Prot2Chat is a novel framework that integrates multimodal protein representations with natural language through a unified module. Our model incorporates a modified ProteinMPNN encoder, which encodes protein sequence and structural information in a unified manner, and a protein-text adapter with cross-attention mechanisms.
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• Abstract: Proteins play a pivotal role in living organisms, yet understanding their functions presents significant challenges, including the limited flexibility of classification-based methods, the inability to effectively leverage spatial structural information, and the lack of systematic evaluation metrics for protein Q&A systems. To address these limitations, we propose Prot2Chat, a novel framework that integrates multimodal protein representations with natural language through a unified module, enabling large language model (LLM)-driven answer generation. Our model incorporates a modified ProteinMPNN encoder, which encodes protein sequence and structural information in a unified manner, a protein-text adapter with cross-attention mechanisms, and a LLaMA3 decoder. To optimize training efficiency, we freeze the encoder and employ LoRA techniques for the decoder. We conducted experiments on two datasets, both automated metrics and expert evaluations demonstrate the superior performance of our model. Furthermore, zero-shot prediction results highlight its strong generalization capabilities. This framework offers a promising solution for bridging protein domain knowledge with natural language understanding, paving the way for transformative advancements in protein-related research.

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