ProtTrans
Transformer protein language models (ProtT5, ProtBERT and others) pretrained on UniRef and BFD, used for embeddings and fine-tuning.
| Category | Protein structure & design |
|---|---|
| GitHub | agemagician/ProtTrans |
| First public | 2020-05-11 (source) |
| Paper | https://doi.org/10.1109/TPAMI.2021.3095381 · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence (2022) |
| License | MIT |
| Pricing | Open source |
| Tags | #protein |
| Last checked | 2026-10-16 |
Specs
| Task | Protein embeddings / property prediction |
|---|---|
| Modalities | Sequence |
| MSA required | No |
| Open weights | Yes (MIT) |
| GPU need | GPU recommended; CPU works for small models |
| GitHub stars | 1,324 |
| Interface | — |
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