Everything about Language binding

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Language bindingA 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: Genome-scale annotation of protein binding sites via language model and geometric deep learningInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Robinson CrusoeThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Binding theory and grammatical specific language impairment in childrenCited 140 times
5. Go sideways: LibffiA closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Foreign function interfaceA closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Binding theory and grammatical specific language impairment in children

  Heather K.J van der Lely, Linda Stollwerck · 1997 · Cognition · 140 citations

• DeepProSite: structure-aware protein binding site prediction using ESMFold and pretrained language model

  Yitian Fang, Yi Jiang, Leyi Wei · 2023 · Bioinformatics · 107 citations

• A Formal Specification Smart-Contract Language for Legally Binding Decentralized Autonomous Organizations

  Vimal Dwivedi, Alex Norta, Alexander Wulf · 2021 · IEEE Access · 67 citations

• Binding language: structuring sentences through precisely timed oscillatory mechanisms

  Katrien Segaert, Ali Mazaheri, Peter Hagoort · 2018 · European Journal of Neuroscience · 43 citations

• TCR-ESM: Employing protein language embeddings to predict TCR-peptide-MHC binding

  Shashank Yadav, Dhvani Sandip Vora, Durai Sundar · 2023 · Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal · 41 citations

• Language abnormalities in schizophrenia: binding core symptoms through contemporary empirical evidence

  Xiao Chang, Wei Zhao, Jujiao Kang · 2022 · Schizophrenia · 28 citations

• Language models can identify enzymatic binding sites in protein sequences

  Yves Gaetan Nana Teukam, Loïc Kwate Dassi, Matteo Manica · 2024 · Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal · 25 citations

• Improved prediction of MHC-peptide binding using protein language models

  Nasser Hashemi, Boran Hao, Mikhail Ignatov · 2023 · Frontiers in Bioinformatics · 24 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• Genome-scale annotation of protein binding sites via language model and geometric deep learning

  Qianmu Yuan, Chong Tian, Yuedong Yang · 2024 · eLife · 43 citations

• AntiFormer: graph enhanced large language model for binding affinity prediction

  Qing Wang, Yuzhou Feng, Yanfei Wang · 2024 · Briefings in Bioinformatics · 22 citations

• Identifying RNA-small Molecule Binding Sites Using Geometric Deep Learning with Language Models

  Weimin Zhu, Xiaohan Ding, Hong-Bin Shen · 2025 · Journal of Molecular Biology · 22 citations

• E2EATP: Fast and High-Accuracy Protein–ATP Binding Residue Prediction via Protein Language Model Embedding

  Bing Rao, Xuan Yu, Jie Bai · 2023 · Journal of Chemical Information and Modeling · 22 citations

• Hybrid protein–ligand binding residue prediction with protein language models: does the structure matter?

  Hamza Gamouh, Marian Novotný, David Hoksza · 2025 · Bioinformatics · 20 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Robinson CrusoeDaniel Defoe · 1686
• King LearWilliam Shakespeare · 1608
• MetamorfosiOvid, William S. Anderson · 1474
• Hedda GablerHenrik Ibsen · 1890
• SatiraeJuvenal · 1648
• Bookbindings, old and newBrander Matthews · 1895
• 📕Subjects in Japanese and EnglishYoshihisa Kitagawa · 2016
• Agreement Beyond PhiShigeru Miyagawa · 2017

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