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-## ProtFlash: A lightweight protein language model
-[![PyPI - Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ProtFlash.svg?style=flat)](https://pypi.org/project/ProtFlash/) [![PyPI - Python Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/ProtFlash.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/ProtFlash/) [![GitHub - LICENSE](https://img.shields.io/github/license/isyslab-hust/ProtFlash.svg?style=flat)](./LICENSE) ![PyPI - Downloads](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/ProtFlash) [![Wheel](https://img.shields.io/pypi/wheel/ProtFlash)](https://pypi.org/project/ProtFlash/) ![build](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/isyslab-hust/ProtFlash/publish_to_pypi.yml)
+# ProtFlash
 
-### Install 
-As a prerequisite, you must have PyTorch installed to use this repository.
+A lightweight protein language model for protein representation learning.
 
-You can use this one-liner for installation, using the latest release version
-```
-# latest version
+[![PyPI - Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/v/ProtFlash.svg?style=flat)](https://pypi.org/project/ProtFlash/)
+[![PyPI - Python Version](https://img.shields.io/pypi/pyversions/ProtFlash.svg)](https://pypi.org/project/ProtFlash/)
+[![GitHub - LICENSE](https://img.shields.io/github/license/isyslab-hust/ProtFlash.svg?style=flat)](./LICENSE)
+![PyPI - Downloads](https://img.shields.io/pypi/dm/ProtFlash)
+[![Wheel](https://img.shields.io/pypi/wheel/ProtFlash)](https://pypi.org/project/ProtFlash/)
+![build](https://img.shields.io/github/actions/workflow/status/isyslab-hust/ProtFlash/publish_to_pypi.yml)
+
+## Table of contents
+- [Installation](#installation)
+- [Model details](#model-details)
+- [Usage](#usage)
+  - [Protein sequence embedding](#protein-sequence-embedding)
+  - [Load weight files](#load-weight-files)
+- [License](#license)
+- [Citation](#citation)
+
+## Installation
+
+> **Prerequisite**: Install [PyTorch](https://pytorch.org/) first.
+
+Choose one of the following installation methods:
+
+```bash
+# Latest version from GitHub
 pip install git+https://github.com/isyslab-hust/ProtFlash
 
-# stable version
+# Stable release from PyPI
 pip install ProtFlash
 ```
 
-## **Model details**
-|   **Model**    | **# of parameters** | **# of hidden size** |            **Pretraining dataset**             | **# of proteins** | **Model download** |
-|:--------------:|:-------------------:|:----------------------:|:----------------------------------------------:|:-----------------:|:------------------------:|
-|    ProtFlash-base    |        174M         |           768           | [UniRef50](https://www.uniprot.org/downloads) |       51M        |      [ProtFlash-base](https://zenodo.org/record/7655858/files/protflash_large.pt)       |
-| ProtFlash-small |        79M         |           512           | [UniRef50](https://www.uniprot.org/downloads)  |        51M        |     [ProtFlash-small](https://zenodo.org/record/7655858/files/flash_protein.pt)     |
+## Model details
 
-### Usage
+| Model | Parameters | Hidden size | Pretraining dataset | Proteins | Download |
+|:--|--:|--:|:--|--:|:--|
+| ProtFlash-base | 174M | 768 | [UniRef50](https://www.uniprot.org/downloads) | 51M | [ProtFlash-base](https://zenodo.org/record/7655858/files/protflash_large.pt) |
+| ProtFlash-small | 79M | 512 | [UniRef50](https://www.uniprot.org/downloads) | 51M | [ProtFlash-small](https://zenodo.org/record/7655858/files/flash_protein.pt) |
 
-#### protein sequence embedding
-```
+## Usage
+
+### Protein sequence embedding
+
+```python
+import torch
 from ProtFlash.pretrain import load_prot_flash_base
 from ProtFlash.utils import batchConverter
+
 data = [
     ("protein1", "MKTVRQERLKSIVRILERSKEPVSGAQLAEELSVSRQVIVQDIAYLRSLGYNIVATPRGYVLAGG"),
     ("protein2", "KALTARQQEVFDLIRDHISQTGMPPTRAEIAQRLGFRSPNAAEEHLKALARKGVIEIVSGASRGIRLLQEE"),
 ]
+
 ids, batch_token, lengths = batchConverter(data)
 model = load_prot_flash_base()
+
 with torch.no_grad():
     token_embedding = model(batch_token, lengths)
+
 # Generate per-sequence representations via averaging
 sequence_representations = []
 for i, (_, seq) in enumerate(data):
-    sequence_representations.append(token_embedding[i, 0: len(seq) + 1].mean(0))
+    sequence_representations.append(token_embedding[i, 0 : len(seq) + 1].mean(0))
 ```
 
-#### loading weight files
-```
+### Load weight files
+
+```python
 import torch
 from ProtFlash.model import FLASHTransformer
 
 model_data = torch.load(your_parameters_file)
 hyper_parameter = model_data["hyper_parameters"]
-model = FLASHTransformer(hyper_parameter['dim'], hyper_parameter['num_tokens'], hyper_parameter         ['num_layers'], group_size=hyper_parameter['num_tokens'],
-                             query_key_dim=hyper_parameter['qk_dim'], max_rel_dist=hyper_parameter['max_rel_dist'], expansion_factor=hyper_parameter['expansion_factor'])
 
-model.load_state_dict(model_data['state_dict'])
+model = FLASHTransformer(
+    hyper_parameter["dim"],
+    hyper_parameter["num_tokens"],
+    hyper_parameter["num_layers"],
+    group_size=hyper_parameter["num_tokens"],
+    query_key_dim=hyper_parameter["qk_dim"],
+    max_rel_dist=hyper_parameter["max_rel_dist"],
+    expansion_factor=hyper_parameter["expansion_factor"],
+)
+
+model.load_state_dict(model_data["state_dict"])
 ```
 
-### License
-This source code is licensed under the MIT license found in the LICENSE file in the root directory of this source tree.
+## License
 
-### Citation
-If you use this code or one of our pretrained models for your publication, please cite our paper:
-```
+This project is licensed under the MIT License. See [LICENSE](./LICENSE) for details.
+
+## Citation
+
+If you use this code or one of the pretrained models in your research, please cite:
+
+```bibtex
 @article{wang2023deciphering,
   title={Deciphering the protein landscape with ProtFlash, a lightweight language model},
   author={Wang, Lei and Zhang, Hui and Xu, Wei and Xue, Zhidong and Wang, Yan},