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[account ↗] [repo ↗] APPLICATION ★ 2048 310 ● active (last update 2 months ago)
reviewed by: deepseek/deepseek-v4-flash

Protenix is a production-oriented PyTorch implementation of AlphaFold 3 for biomolecular structure prediction, maintained by ByteDance. It is best classified as an application rather than a pure research codebase: it ships a `protenix` CLI with commands for prediction, input conversion, MSA/template/RNA-MSA search, and data preparation, plus training/fine-tuning entry points, batch inference runners, Docker deployment, web-service helpers, and PyPI packaging. The code ingests PDB/CIF, FASTA, SMILES/SDF, and JSON descriptors covering proteins, DNA, RNA, ligands, ions, modified residues, covalent bonds, and contact/pocket constraints, then outputs predicted 3D CIF structures with confidence metrics such as pLDDT, PAE, pTM, and ipTM.

RATING8.8/10
QUALITY8.2/10
MAINTENANCEactive
DRIFTlow
CONTRIBUTORS36
VELOCITY0.53
OPEN ISSUES123
CLOSED ISSUES149
LAST COMMIT2 months ago
torch (pip) ==2.7.1
torchvision (pip) ==0.22.1
torchaudio (pip) ==2.7.1
cuequivariance-ops-torch-cu12 (pip) ==0.8.0
cuequivariance-torch (pip) ==0.8.0
scipy (pip) >=1.9.0
ml_collections (pip) ==1.1.0
tqdm (pip) ==4.67.1
pandas (pip) ==2.3.1
PyYAML (pip) ==6.0.2
matplotlib (pip) ==3.10.5
ipywidgets (pip) ==8.1.7
py3Dmol (pip) ==2.5.2
rdkit (pip) ==2025.9.3
biopython (pip) ==1.85
biotite (pip) ==1.4.0
modelcif (pip) ==1.4
gemmi (pip) ==0.6.7
pdbeccdutils (pip) ==1.0.0
fair-esm (pip) ==2.0.0
scikit-learn (pip) ==1.7.1
scikit-learn-extra (pip) ==0.3.0
deepspeed (pip) ==0.17.5
pydantic (pip) >=2.0.0
triton (pip) ==3.3.1
optree (pip) ==0.17.0
protobuf (pip) ==6.31.1
icecream (pip) ==2.1.7
ipdb (pip) ==0.13.13
wandb (pip) ==0.21.1
numpy (pip) ==2.4.1
networkx (pip) >=3.4.2
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The LLM identified 6 files worth highlighting for reuse:

Custom triangle-attention Triton kernels with forward/backward implementations, hardware autotuning with disk caching, and a PyTorch fallback path. The component can be extracted as a reusable fused-attention primitive for other transformer-heavy models and demonstrates non-trivial GPU kernel craftsmanship.

file: protenix/model/tri_attention/op.py ↗ | tags: #triton-kernels #autotuning #fallback

Fused CUDA layer normalization with JIT compilation, supporting FP32/FP16/BF16, Welford online mean/variance, warp-shuffle reductions, and vector-width selection. It is a self-contained performance primitive reusable independently of Protenix.

file: protenix/model/layer_norm/layer_norm.py ↗ | tags: #cuda-kernels #jit-compilation #welford

Reimplements torch_scatter's sum/mean/min/max primitives in pure PyTorch, removing a native extension dependency. It is isolated, clean, and can be dropped into any PyTorch project needing scatter reductions without custom CUDA builds.

file: protenix/utils/scatter_utils.py ↗ | tags: #scatter-operations #dependency-free #torch-utils

MMCIFParser constructs biological assemblies from mmCIF files, adds missing atoms/residues, assigns molecule types, and handles altloc and arginine fixes. The extension hierarchy for PoseBuster, RecentPDB, and Distillation datasets makes the parsing logic adaptable across structure-prediction benchmarks.

file: protenix/data/core/parser.py ↗ | tags: #mmcif-parsing #bioassembly #hierarchy

Implements a hierarchical ConfigManager with RequiredValue and GlobalConfigValue markers, allowing model, data, and inference settings to compose cleanly and be overridden from CLI flags. It is a reusable configuration pattern for large ML codebases with many feature toggles and model variants.

file: protenix/config/config.py ↗ | tags: #config-management #hierarchical-config #cli-parsing

Aggregates AlphaFold-3-style losses with configurable weights and chunked forward passes for memory efficiency. The chunking and checkpointing pattern is generally applicable to large-tensor loss computations in other structure-prediction training loops.

file: protenix/model/loss.py ↗ | tags: #loss-functions #memory-optimization #chunking
Last analyzed: 2026-09-07 12:55:03.982346
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