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ProteinGym: Large-Scale Benchmarks for Protein Fitness Prediction and Design

University of Oxford · Harvard Medical School · Seismic Therapeutic · Harvard University · Centre for Genomic Regulation · Universitat Pompeu Fabra · Broad Institute · 2023-12-10

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ProteinGym DMS Substitutions1 run

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proteingym-v10-dms-substitutions-zero-shot

From ProteinGym: Large-Scale Benchmarks for Protein Fitness Prediction and Design

proteingym-v10-dms-substitutions-zero-shotv1.0

Evaluated models / systems: CARP (38M), CARP (600K), CARP (640M), CARP (76M), DeepSequence (ensemble), DeepSequence (single), ESM-1b, ESM-1v (ensemble), ESM-1v (single), ESM-IF1, ESM2 (150M), ESM2 (15B), ESM2 (35M), ESM2 (3B), ESM2 (650M), ESM2 (8M), EVE (ensemble), EVE (single), EVmutation, GEMME, MIF, MIF-ST, MSA Transformer (ensemble), MSA Transformer (single), ProGen2 Base, ProGen2 L, ProGen2 M, ProGen2 S, ProGen2 XL, ProteinMPNN, ProtGPT2, RITA L, RITA M, RITA S, RITA XL, Site-Independent, TranceptEVE L, TranceptEVE M, TranceptEVE S, Tranception L, Tranception L no retrieval, Tranception M, Tranception M no retrieval, Tranception S, Tranception S no retrieval, UniRep, UniRep evotuned, VESPA, VESPAl, WaveNet

Scopefull · n=217
Shots0
TurnsNot applicable
System prompt publicNot applicable
Reasoning / effortNot applicable
BrowserNot applicable
InternetNot applicable
DatabasesNot applicable
Code executionNot applicable
ContainerNot reported
External toolsmodel-specific inputs
Token budgetNot applicable
Time / cost budgetNot reported
TemperatureNot applicable
SeedNot reported
RepeatsNot reported
Graderdeterministic official scoring pipeline · human review: no
StatisticsNon-parametric bootstrap standard error of each model-to-best Spearman difference over 10,000 bootstrap samples from proteins
ContaminationNot reported
Metrics, results, and full protocol

Metrics

MetricKind / baselineUnitAggregationThreshold / tolerance
Spearmanabsolutecorrelationassay-level Spearman, averaged within five functional groups, then equal-weight mean across groupsNot reported
AUCabsolutearea under ROC curveassay-level AUC, averaged within five functional groups, then equal-weight mean across groupsNot reported
MCCabsolutecorrelationassay-level MCC, averaged within five functional groups, then equal-weight mean across groupsNot reported
NDCG@10%absolutenormalized discounted cumulative gainassay-level NDCG@10%, averaged within five functional groups, then equal-weight mean across groupsNot reported
Top 10% recallabsoluteproportionassay-level top-10% recall, averaged within five functional groups, then equal-weight mean across groupsNot reported

Results

ModelMetricValuen
TranceptEVE LSpearman0.456 correlation
Table A5 rank 1*; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.000.
Not reported
TranceptEVE MSpearman0.455 correlation
Table A5 rank 1*; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.004.
Not reported
GEMMESpearman0.455 correlation
Table A5 rank 1*; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.007.
Not reported
TranceptEVE SSpearman0.452 correlation
Table A5 rank 4; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.004.
Not reported
EVE (ensemble)Spearman0.439 correlation
Table A5 rank 5; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.006.
Not reported
VESPASpearman0.436 correlation
Table A5 rank 6; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.006.
Not reported
Tranception LSpearman0.434 correlation
Table A5 rank 7*; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.004.
Not reported
MSA Transformer (ensemble)Spearman0.434 correlation
Table A5 rank 7*; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.009.
Not reported
EVE (single)Spearman0.433 correlation
Table A5 rank 9; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.005.
Not reported
Tranception MSpearman0.427 correlation
Table A5 rank 10; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.005.
Not reported
ESM-IF1Spearman0.422 correlation
Table A5 rank 11; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.011.
Not reported
MSA Transformer (single)Spearman0.421 correlation
Table A5 rank 12; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.009.
Not reported
DeepSequence (ensemble)Spearman0.419 correlation
Table A5 rank 13; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.008.
Not reported
Tranception SSpearman0.418 correlation
Table A5 rank 14; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.006.
Not reported
ESM2 (650M)Spearman0.414 correlation
Table A5 rank 15; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.012.
Not reported
DeepSequence (single)Spearman0.407 correlation
Table A5 rank 16*; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.008.
Not reported
ESM-1v (ensemble)Spearman0.407 correlation
Table A5 rank 16*; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.012.
Not reported
ESM2 (3B)Spearman0.406 correlation
Table A5 rank 18; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.011.
Not reported
MIF-STSpearman0.401 correlation
Table A5 rank 19*; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.010.
Not reported
ESM2 (15B)Spearman0.401 correlation
Table A5 rank 19*; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.010.
Not reported
EVmutationSpearman0.395 correlation
Table A5 rank 21; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.006.
Not reported
ESM-1bSpearman0.394 correlation
Table A5 rank 22*; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.010.
Not reported
VESPAlSpearman0.394 correlation
Table A5 rank 22*; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.007.
Not reported
ProGen2 XLSpearman0.391 correlation
Table A5 rank 24; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.008.
Not reported
ESM2 (150M)Spearman0.387 correlation
Table A5 rank 25; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.013.
Not reported
MIFSpearman0.382 correlation
Table A5 rank 26; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.011.
Not reported
ProGen2 LSpearman0.38 correlation
Table A5 rank 27; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.008.
Not reported
ProGen2 MSpearman0.379 correlation
Table A5 rank 28; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.008.
Not reported
ProGen2 BaseSpearman0.378 correlation
Table A5 rank 29; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.009.
Not reported
Tranception L no retrievalSpearman0.374 correlation
Table A5 rank 30*; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.008.
Not reported
ESM-1v (single)Spearman0.374 correlation
Table A5 rank 30*; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.013.
Not reported
WaveNetSpearman0.373 correlation
Table A5 rank 32; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.012.
Not reported
RITA XLSpearman0.372 correlation
Table A5 rank 33; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.009.
Not reported
CARP (640M)Spearman0.368 correlation
Table A5 rank 34; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.011.
Not reported
RITA LSpearman0.365 correlation
Table A5 rank 35; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.009.
Not reported
Site-IndependentSpearman0.359 correlation
Table A5 rank 36; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.010.
Not reported
RITA MSpearman0.35 correlation
Table A5 rank 37; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.010.
Not reported
Tranception M no retrievalSpearman0.348 correlation
Table A5 rank 38; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.009.
Not reported
UniRep evotunedSpearman0.347 correlation
Table A5 rank 39; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.009.
Not reported
ProGen2 SSpearman0.336 correlation
Table A5 rank 40; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.012.
Not reported
CARP (76M)Spearman0.328 correlation
Table A5 rank 41; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.012.
Not reported
ESM2 (35M)Spearman0.321 correlation
Table A5 rank 42; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.015.
Not reported
RITA SSpearman0.304 correlation
Table A5 rank 43; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.011.
Not reported
Tranception S no retrievalSpearman0.303 correlation
Table A5 rank 44; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.012.
Not reported
CARP (38M)Spearman0.279 correlation
Table A5 rank 45; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.014.
Not reported
ProteinMPNNSpearman0.258 correlation
Table A5 rank 46; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.011.
Not reported
ESM2 (8M)Spearman0.226 correlation
Table A5 rank 47; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.015.
Not reported
UniRepSpearman0.19 correlation
Table A5 rank 48; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.016.
Not reported
ProtGPT2Spearman0.188 correlation
Table A5 rank 49; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.011.
Not reported
CARP (600K)Spearman0.106 correlation
Table A5 rank 50; bootstrap SE of difference from the best model: 0.016.
Not reported

Evidence

  • section: pp. 5–8 and 29, Table 1, Sections 3.3–4.1, and Table A1 (Defines v1.0, 217 substitution assays, zero-shot label access, baselines, and official scoring.) — supports /scope, /protocol
  • table: pp. 3, 6, 9, 35, and 38; Figure 1, Section 4.1, Table 2, Appendix A.5.1, and Table A5 (Defines Spearman, AUC, MCC, NDCG@10%, top-10% recall, corrected-average aggregation, and 10,000-sample bootstrap comparisons.) — supports /metrics, /protocol/statistical
  • table: p. 38, Table A5 (All 50 zero-shot DMS substitution Spearman values and bootstrap standard errors of model-to-best differences.) — supports /results