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A compression model for protein structure comparison

Jerry Xu

Fourth place · Regeneron STS 2026

A model that compresses a protein's molecular features into a compact numerical representation, so that structures can be compared efficiently without losing the features that matter.

protein-structure
representation-learning
bioinformatics
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Computer ScienceComputational Biology and Bioinformatics