Dataset Card — SonoForge seed data (v0.1, Phase 0)
Following the spirit of Gebru et al., Datasheets for Datasets (2021).
Motivation
Provide targets and seeds for de novo design of gas-vesicle acoustic-reporter proteins: GvpA (primary shell protein) and GvpC (scaffolding protein that tunes collapse pressure), plus published acoustic-reporter-gene (ARG) variant panels where available.
Composition (planned, Phase 1)
- Targets: GvpA / GvpC sequences and structures (RCSB PDB, UniProt).
- Variant panels: ARG directed-evolution variants with measured acoustic properties, where public.
- Pretraining corpus: a broad protein set for the PLM (transfer learning onto the sparse GV family).
Collection & provenance
Public databases only (RCSB PDB, UniProt) and published literature. Accessions and
licenses are recorded in data/manifest.json at download time.
Preprocessing
Length filtering, deduplication by sequence, and featurization to the Candidate schema
(src/sonoforge/data/types.py). Simulated oracle labels are marked as such.
Distribution & licensing
Source structures/sequences retain their upstream licenses. No private or personal data. This repository ships download scripts, not bulk redistributed third-party data.
Known limitations
Public GV/ARG measurement data are sparse and heterogeneous across labs and assays — which is precisely why the platform is built around uncertainty-aware, sample-efficient active learning.