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PepCVAE: Semi-Supervised Targeted Design of Antimicrobial Peptide Sequences

10/17/2018
by   Payel Das, et al.
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Given the emerging global threat of antimicrobial resistance, new methods for next-generation antimicrobial design are urgently needed. We report a peptide generation framework PepCVAE, based on a semi-supervised variational autoen- coder (VAE) model, for designing novel antimicrobial peptide (AMP) sequences. Our model learns a rich latent space of the biological peptide context by taking advantage of abundant, unlabeled peptide sequences. The model further learns a disentangled antimicrobial attribute space by using the feedback from a jointly trained AMP classifier that uses limited labeled instances. The disentangled rep- resentation allows for controllable generation of AMPs. Extensive analysis of the PepCVAE-generated sequences reveals superior performance of our model in comparison to a plain VAE, as PepCVAE generates novel AMP sequences with higher long-range diversity, while being closer to the training distribution of bio- logical peptides. These features are highly desired in next-generation antimicrio- bial design.

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