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 This repository contains pretrained METL models with minimal dependencies.
+For more information, please see the [metl](https://github.com/gitter-lab/metl) repository and our manuscript:
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+**Biophysics-based protein language models for protein engineering**.  
+Sam Gelman, Bryce Johnson, Chase Freschlin, Sameer D'Costa, Anthony Gitter<sup>+</sup>, Philip A Romero<sup>+</sup>.  
+*bioRxiv*, 2024.  
+<sup>+</sup> denotes equal contribution.
 
 # Getting started
 1. Create a conda environment (or use existing one): `conda create --name myenv python=3.9`