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---
# eshmun-thinking
Thinking-aware instruction-tuning dataset for protein language models: chain-of-thought
`...` reasoning traces, built **programmatically** from UniProt/SCOP knowledge
graphs (not distilled from an external LLM or self-sampled), covering protein **annotation**
(sequence → description) and **generation** (description → sequence) in both directions.
Hypothesis under test: does inserting an explicit reasoning step grounded in real sequence
features (motifs, domains, GO function/process/localization, EC numbers, SCOP fold/superfamily/
family, PPI partners) before the final answer improve instruction-tuned protein models over
direct instruction tuning (InstructProtein/ProLLaMA-style)?
## Configs
8 configs, each with `train`/`validation`/`test` splits (sequence-identity-based via MMseqs2:
validation <70% identity to train, test <30% identity to train):
| config | task family | direction | examples |
|---|---|---|---|
| `task_a_annotation` | family/function/process/localization/catalytic activity (human) | sequence → property | 42,714 |
| `task_a_generation` | same, generation direction | property → sequence | 132,817 |
| `all_organism_annotation` | same task family, all reviewed SwissProt organisms | sequence → property | 1,802,616 |
| `all_organism_generation` | same, generation direction | property → sequence | 3,075,604 |
| `ppi_annotation` | protein-protein interaction (1:3 positive:negative) | pair → yes/no | 104,376 |
| `ppi_generation` | protein-protein interaction | partner + context → sequence | 52,188 |
| `scop_annotation` | SCOP fold/superfamily/family | sequence → property | 38,457 |
| `scop_generation` | SCOP fold/superfamily/family | property → sequence | 36,945 |
Each row has `instruction`, `reasoning` (the `...` block), `answer`, plus
task-specific identifier columns (`entry`, `entry_a`/`entry_b`, `target_relation`,
`target_value`, `label`).
## Protein sequence encoding
Sequences are wrapped as `...` with a `Ƥ` character joining every residue
(`"Ƥ".join(sequence)`), e.g. `MƤSƤLƤGƤLƤL...`. This matches the tokenization
convention of the InstructProtein-based pilot this dataset currently trains
(`khairi/Eshmun-Thinking-Pilot`), whose tokenizer has no protein-specific vocabulary and would
otherwise BPE-merge multiple residues into one token, losing residue-level granularity. Strip
`Ƥ` to recover the raw sequence.
## Reasoning trace subjects
**Annotation direction**: reasoning cites real, known facts about the specific queried protein
(or, for SCOP, the other two structural levels of the same solved entry) — subject is literally
`protein` (or `protein_a`/`protein_b` for PPI, since both are given inputs).
**Generation direction**: the model is given only one stated property as input (e.g.
`member_of = "Cytochrome P450 family"`), so reasoning cannot cite other instance-specific facts
about a not-yet-generated sequence without asserting things the model can't know and inverting
the real causal order (sequence determines function, not the reverse). Instead it cites
**population-level statistics about the target category**, computed from train-split entries
only, and the triple subject reflects that — a short (one/two-word) category label, not
`protein`:
| `target_relation` | subject |
|---|---|
| `catalyzes` | `catalytic_activity` |
| `has_function` | `molecular_function` |
| `involved_in` | `biological_process` |
| `located_in` | `cellular_component` |
| `member_of` | `family` |
| `scop_fold` | `fold` |
| `scop_superfamily` | `superfamily` |
| `scop_family` | `scop_family` |
Example (`task_a_generation`, target `catalyzes = 1.-.-.-`):
```
instruction: I want a protein sequence with the catalytic activity described by EC number 1.-.-.-.
reasoning:
(catalytic_activity, has_length, [>400] amino acids)
(catalytic_activity, involved_in, glycolipid biosynthetic process)
(catalytic_activity, located_in, mitochondrion)
...
answer: MƤLƤPƤNƤTƤGƤRƤL...
```