Do you only focus on unsupervised sequence similarity/distance? How to consider functional similarity/distance?

[xinshao-wang]

Dear authors,

Greetings!

I would like to check do you only focus on unsupervised sequence similarities/distances of biological sequences? If so, do you have a plan to consider their functional similarities/distances?

Thanks.
(Amos) Xinshao Wang

[gcorso]

Hi Amos,
Indeed we only focus on unsupervised similarities and have no plans of considering functional ones, but we believe many of the method's components could be reused in that setting.
Gabriele

[xinshao-wang]

Hi Gabriele,

Thanks so much for your reply.

I have been also working on diverse bioseq distances, e.g., MMSeq2, HMMer, deep embedding distance metrics, etc. I look forward to future discussion with you. This is my profile: https://www.linkedin.com/in/xinshaowang/

Amos