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ProtTrans is providing state of the art pretrained language models for proteins. ProtTrans was trained on thousands of GPUs from Summit and hundreds of Google TPUs using Transformers Models.

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ProtTrans



ProtTrans is providing state of the art pre-trained models for proteins. ProtTrans was trained on thousands of GPUs from Summit and hundreds of Google TPUs using various Transformer models.

Have a look at our paper ProtTrans: cracking the language of life’s code through self-supervised deep learning and high performance computing for more information about our work.


ProtTrans Attention Visualization


This repository will be updated regulary with new pre-trained models for proteins as part of supporting bioinformatics community in general, and Covid-19 research specifically through our Accelerate SARS-CoV-2 research with transfer learning using pre-trained language modeling models project.

Table of Contents

⌛️  Models Availability

Model Hugging Face Zenodo Colab
ProtT5-XL-UniRef50 (also ProtT5-XL-U50) Download Download Colab
ProtT5-XL-BFD Download Download
ProtT5-XXL-UniRef50 Download Download
ProtT5-XXL-BFD Download Download
ProtBert-BFD Download Download
ProtBert Download Download
ProtAlbert Download Download
ProtXLNet Download Download
ProtElectra-Generator-BFD Download Download
ProtElectra-Discriminator-BFD Download Download

⌛️  Datasets Availability

Dataset Dropbox
NEW364 Download
Netsurfp2 Download
CASP12 Download
CB513 Download
TS115 Download
DeepLoc Train Download
DeepLoc Test Download

🚀  Usage

How to use ProtTrans:

  • 🧬  Feature Extraction (FE):
    Please check: Embedding Section. Colab example for feature extraction via ProtT5-XL-U50

  • 🧠  Prediction:
    Please check: Prediction Section. Colab example for secondary structure prediction via ProtT5-XL-U50 and Colab example for subcellular localization prediction as well as differentiation between membrane-bound and water-soluble proteins via ProtT5-XL-U50.

  • ⚗️  Protein Sequences Generation:
    Please check: Generate Section. More information coming soon.

📊  Original downstream Predictions

  • 🧬  Secondary Structure Prediction (Q3):
Model CASP12 TS115 CB513
ProtT5-XL-UniRef50 81 87 86
ProtT5-XL-BFD 77 85 84
ProtBert-BFD 76 84 83
ProtBert 75 83 81
ProtAlbert 74 82 79
ProtXLNet 73 81 78
ProtElectra-Generator 73 78 76
ProtElectra-Discriminator 74 81 79
ProtTXL 71 76 74
ProtTXL-BFD 72 75 77

🆕 Predict your sequence live on predictprotein.org.

  • 🧬  Secondary Structure Prediction (Q8):
Model CASP12 TS115 CB513
ProtT5-XL-UniRef50 70 77 74
ProtT5-XL-BFD 66 74 71
ProtBert-BFD 65 73 70
ProtBert 63 72 66
ProtAlbert 62 70 65
ProtXLNet 62 69 63
ProtElectra-Generator 60 66 61
ProtElectra-Discriminator 62 69 65
ProtTXL 59 64 59
ProtTXL-BFD 60 65 60

🆕 Predict your sequence live on predictprotein.org.

  • 🧬  Membrane-bound vs Water-soluble (Q2):
Model DeepLoc
ProtT5-XL-UniRef50 91
ProtT5-XL-BFD 91
ProtBert-BFD 89
ProtBert 89
ProtAlbert 88
ProtXLNet 87
ProtElectra-Generator 85
ProtElectra-Discriminator 86
ProtTXL 85
ProtTXL-BFD 86

  • 🧬  Subcellular Localization (Q10):
Model DeepLoc
ProtT5-XL-UniRef50 81
ProtT5-XL-BFD 77
ProtBert-BFD 74
ProtBert 74
ProtAlbert 74
ProtXLNet 68
ProtElectra-Generator 59
ProtElectra-Discriminator 70
ProtTXL 66
ProtTXL-BFD 65

📊  Use-cases

Level Type Tool Task Manuscript Webserver
Protein Function Light Attention Subcellular localization Light attention predicts protein location from the language of life (Web-server)
Residue Function bindEmbed21 Binding Residues Protein embeddings and deep learning predict binding residues for various ligand classes (Coming soon)
Residue Function VESPA Conservation & effect of Single Amino Acid Variants (SAVs) Embeddings from protein language models predict conservation and variant effects (coming soon)
Protein Structure ProtTucker Protein 3D structure similarity prediction Contrastive learning on protein embeddings enlightens midnight zone at lightning speed
Residue Structure ProtT5dst Protein 3D structure prediction Protein language model embeddings for fast, accurate, alignment-free protein structure prediction

📊  Comparison to other protein language models (pLMs)

While developing the use-cases, we compared ProtTrans models to other protein language models, for instance the ESM models. To focus on the effect of changing input representaitons, the following comparisons use the same architectures on top on different embedding inputs.

Task/Model ProtBERT-BFD ProtT5-XL-U50 ESM-1b ESM-1v Metric Reference
Subcell. loc. (setDeepLoc) 80 86 83 - Accuracy Light-attention
Subcell. loc. (setHard) 58 65 62 - Accuracy Light-attention
Conservation (ConSurf-DB) 0.540 0.596 0.563 - MCC ConsEmb
Variant effect (DMS-data) - 0.53 - 0.49 Spearman (Mean) VESPA
Variant effect (DMS-data) - 0.53 - 0.53 Spearman (Median) VESPA
CATH superfamily (unsup.) 18 64 57 - Accuracy ProtTucker
CATH superfamily (sup.) 39 76 70 - Accuracy ProtTucker
Binding residues - 39 32 - F1 bindEmbed21

Important note on ProtT5-XL-UniRef50 (dubbed ProtT5-XL-U50): all performances were measured using only embeddings extracted from the encoder-side of the underlying T5 model as described here. Also, experiments were ran in half-precision mode (model.half()), to speed-up embedding generation. No performance degradation could be observed in any of the experiments when running in half-precision.

❤️  Community and Contributions

The ProtTrans project is a open source project supported by various partner companies and research institutions. We are committed to share all our pre-trained models and knowledge. We are more than happy if you could help us on sharing new ptrained models, fixing bugs, proposing new feature, improving our documentation, spreading the word, or support our project.

📫  Have a question?

We are happy to hear your question in our issues page ProtTrans! Obviously if you have a private question or want to cooperate with us, you can always reach out to us directly via our RostLab email

🤝  Found a bug?

Feel free to file a new issue with a respective title and description on the the ProtTrans repository. If you already found a solution to your problem, we would love to review your pull request!.

✅  Requirements

For protein feature extraction or fine-tuninng our pre-trained models, Pytorch and Transformers library from huggingface is needed. For model visualization, you need to install BertViz library.

🤵  Team

  • Technical University of Munich:
Ahmed Elnaggar Michael Heinzinger Christian Dallago Ghalia Rehawi Burkhard Rost
  • Med AI Technology:
Yu Wang
  • Google:
Llion Jones
  • Nvidia:
Tom Gibbs Tamas Feher Christoph Angerer
  • Seoul National University:
Martin Steinegger
  • ORNL:
Debsindhu Bhowmik

💰  Sponsors

Nvidia Google Google ORNL Software Campus

📘  License

The ProtTrans pretrained models are released under the under terms of the Academic Free License v3.0 License.

✏️  Citation

If you use this code or our pretrained models for your publication, please cite the original paper:

@ARTICLE
{9477085,
author={Elnaggar, Ahmed and Heinzinger, Michael and Dallago, Christian and Rehawi, Ghalia and Yu, Wang and Jones, Llion and Gibbs, Tom and Feher, Tamas and Angerer, Christoph and Steinegger, Martin and Bhowmik, Debsindhu and Rost, Burkhard},
journal={IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence},
title={ProtTrans: Towards Cracking the Language of Lifes Code Through Self-Supervised Deep Learning and High Performance Computing},
year={2021},
volume={},
number={},
pages={1-1},
doi={10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3095381}}