Demo Data from EDBT 2026 / reviewers in the wild / expert
Niccolò Cardente
dblp:440/7243
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1ranked-venue papers
0as first author
1since 2021 · last 2026
0009-0009-4021-1631ORCID · reported
Domains — the database's venue-derived domains; a paper can count in several
Applied, interdisciplinary, general and emerging computing · 1 · 1 since 2021
Expertise — from the expertise taxonomy: the topics of the expert's papers under the CCF categories. A weight counts papers with recency: 1 for a paper about the topic, 0.3 when the topic is its context, halved every five years.
| Interdisciplinary, comprehensive, and emerging computing
1 paper |
Bioinformatics and computational biology · 100% |
Topics — the 2 heaviest of 2, each with the papers that count most for it
| Topic | Weight | Papers | Last | Evidence papers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Bioinformatics and computational biology › protein sequence analysis › protein sequence representation
protein language model |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | PEPE: scalable extraction of multi-modal protein language model representations · Bioinform. 2026 |
Bioinformatics and computational biology › protein analysis › protein bioinformatics
protein representation learning |
1.0 | 1 | 2026 | PEPE: scalable extraction of multi-modal protein language model representations · Bioinform. 2026 |
Methods — techniques the papers use, named apart from their topics
parallel streaming extraction · 1.0memory-efficient computation · 1.0
| Year | Publication | Venue | Position |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | PEPE: scalable extraction of multi-modal protein language model representationsabstractSUMMARY: Protein language models (PLMs) capture intricate amino-acid dependencies, producing embeddings that encode rich structural, functional, and evolutionary information. Despite their potential, current extraction workflows rely on arbitrary choices, with respect to embedding layer, pooling, and padding, that frequently yield suboptimal representations for feature extraction and downstream analyses. Large-scale embedding generation is further limited by inefficiencies in computation and memory: (i) accumulating all model outputs in memory before writing to disk causes severe bottlenecks, and (ii) repeatedly embedding identical sequences to extract different modes introduces redundant computation and drastically reduces throughput and scalability. We introduce PEPE (Parallel Extraction for Protein Embeddings), a command-line tool and Python library that enables efficient, high-throughput, and multimodal extraction from protein language models. PEPE's parallelized and streaming-based architecture achieves runtimes several orders of magnitude faster than sequential approaches. Unlike conventional methods-whose peak memory usage scales linearly with output size and fails when memory capacity is exceeded-PEPE maintains stable, low memory consumption, enabling multimodal embedding extraction even beyond available RAM. PEPE supports a wide range of state-of-the-art and custom PLMs through a simple, flexible interface. By combining scalability, robustness, and ease of use, PEPE allows researchers to generate massive, information-rich embedding datasets efficiently, and facilitate the discovery of optimal representations for structural, functional, and evolutionary downstream tasks. By streamlining the generation of diverse embedding configurations, PEPE provides researchers with the necessary data to identify high-performing latent states for specific biological contexts without requiring additional computational resources. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: PEPE is a command-line tool written in Python and published under MIT license. The source code and documentation are available at https://github.com/csi-greifflab/pepe-cli. PEPE is also available for installation from PyPI under https://pypi.org/project/pepe-cli and deposited on Zenodo at https://zenodo.org/records/20268104. Jahn Zhong, Niccolò Cardente, Geir Kjetil Sandve, Habib Bashour, Maria Francesca Abbate, Victor Greiff |
Bioinform. | 2 |