Inferring context-specific site variation with evotuned protein language models
Spyros Lytras, Adam Patrick Strange, Jumpei Ito, Kei Sato
This study introduces a pLM entropy metric to assess protein site conservation and variability, showing that fine-tuning pLMs on evolutionarily related proteins improves their ability to capture context-specific site variation.
NAR Genomics and Bioinformatics · Jan 6, 2026Peer-reviewedEvolutionary Biology