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TIGER: Text-Informed Generalized Enzyme-Reaction Retrieval

other · 2026-05-26

Researchers have developed TIGER, a Text-Informed Generalized Enzyme-Reaction Retrieval framework, to address poor generalization in enzyme-reaction retrieval tasks. The framework uses protein-to-text generation models to extract textual semantic knowledge from enzyme sequences, creating a generalized representation that links enzymes and biochemical reactions. A Dynamic Gating Network adaptively fuses this text-derived knowledge to improve retrieval reliability. The work is published on arXiv (2605.24489).

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  • TIGER stands for Text-Informed Generalized Enzyme-Reaction Retrieval.
  • It addresses enzyme-reaction retrieval, a bidirectional task mapping enzymes to reactions and vice versa.
  • Existing approaches suffer from poor generalization and asymmetry between retrieval directions.
  • TIGER uses protein-to-text generation models to distill textual semantics from enzyme sequences.
  • A Dynamic Gating Network adaptively fuses text-derived knowledge.
  • The paper is available on arXiv with ID 2605.24489.
  • The framework aims to improve performance across tasks and distributions.
  • It supports enzyme characterization, reaction mechanism elucidation, and metabolic pathway design.

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