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The 2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded in part for protein structure prediction using AlphaFold2, an artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) model trained on vast amounts of sequence and 3D structure data. AlphaFold2 and…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-04-22 Alexander M. Ille , Emily Anas , Michael B. Mathews , Stephen K. Burley

Recent advances in protein structure prediction, such as AlphaFold, have demonstrated the power of deep neural architectures like the Evoformer for capturing complex spatial and evolutionary constraints on protein conformation. However, the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-05-14 Arielle Sanford , Shuo Sun , Christian B. Mendl

In Dec 2020, the results of AlphaFold2 were presented at CASP14, sparking a revolution in the field of protein structure predictions. For the first time, a purely computational method could challenge experimental accuracy for structure…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-12-16 Arne Elofsson

This systematic review outlines pivotal advancements in deep learning-driven protein structure prediction and design, focusing on four core models-AlphaFold, RoseTTAFold, RFDiffusion, and ProteinMPNN-developed by 2024 Nobel Laureates in…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-04-03 Wanqing Yang , Yanwei Wang , Yang Wang

The inapplicability of amino acid covariation methods to small protein families has limited their use for structural annotation of whole genomes. Recently, deep learning has shown promise in allowing accurate residue-residue contact…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-09-10 Joe G Greener , Shaun M Kandathil , David T Jones

AlphaFold2 has been hailed as a breakthrough in protein folding. It can rapidly predict protein structures with lab-grade accuracy. However, its implementation does not include the necessary training code. OpenFold is the first trainable…

AlphaFold 3 represents a transformative advancement in computational biology, enhancing protein structure prediction through novel multi-scale transformer architectures, biologically informed cross-attention mechanisms, and geometry-aware…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-08-27 Alireza Abbaszadeh , Armita Shahlaee

Deep learning has been widely used for protein engineering. However, it is limited by the lack of sufficient experimental data to train an accurate model for predicting the functional fitness of high-order mutants. Here, we develop SESNet,…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2023-04-10 Mingchen Li , Liqi Kang , Yi Xiong , Yu Guang Wang , Guisheng Fan , Pan Tan , Liang Hong

Deep learning is catalyzing a scientific revolution fueled by big data, accessible toolkits, and powerful computational resources, impacting many fields including protein structural modeling. Protein structural modeling, such as predicting…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2020-07-17 Wenhao Gao , Sai Pooja Mahajan , Jeremias Sulam , Jeffrey J. Gray

Recently developed deep learning techniques have significantly improved the accuracy of various speech and image recognition systems. In this paper we adapt some of these techniques for protein secondary structure prediction. We first train…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2016-11-07 Akosua Busia , Jasmine Collins , Navdeep Jaitly

Protein structure prediction is a critical and longstanding challenge in biology, garnering widespread interest due to its significance in understanding biological processes. A particular area of focus is the prediction of missing loops in…

Motivation: Protein secondary structure prediction can provide important information for protein 3D structure prediction and protein functions. Deep learning, which has been successfully applied to various research fields such as image…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2017-09-20 Chao Fang , Yi Shang , Dong Xu

The remarkable success of AlphaFold2 in providing accurate atomic-level prediction of protein structures from their amino acid sequence has transformed approaches to the protein folding problem. However, its core paradigm of mapping one…

Applications · Statistics 2025-12-12 Yongkai Chen , Samuel WK Wong , SC Kou

Deep learning-based prediction of protein-ligand complexes has advanced significantly with the development of architectures such as AlphaFold3, Boltz-1, Chai-1, Protenix, and NeuralPlexer. Multiple sequence alignment (MSA) has been a key…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-03 Enming Xing , Junjie Zhang , Shen Wang , Xiaolin Cheng

Protein inverse folding aims to design an amino acid sequence that will fold into a given backbone structure, serving as a central task in protein design. Two main paradigms have been widely explored. Template-based methods exploit…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-03-17 Yiran Zhu , Changxi Chi , Hongxin Xiang , Wenjie Du , Xiaoqi Wang , Jun Xia

Attention-based models trained on protein sequences have demonstrated incredible success at classification and generation tasks relevant for artificial intelligence-driven protein design. However, we lack a sufficient understanding of how…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-06-29 Erik Nijkamp , Jeffrey Ruffolo , Eli N. Weinstein , Nikhil Naik , Ali Madani

Proteins are the fundamental macromolecules that play diverse and crucial roles in all living matter and have tremendous implications in healthcare, manufacturing, and biotechnology. Their functions are largely determined by the sequences…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-09-17 Boqiao Lai

While DeepMind has tentatively solved protein folding, its inverse problem -- protein design which predicts protein sequences from their 3D structures -- still faces significant challenges. Particularly, the lack of large-scale standardized…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2022-02-15 Zhangyang Gao , Cheng Tan , Stan Z. Li

AI-based protein structure prediction pipelines, such as AlphaFold2, have achieved near-experimental accuracy. These advanced pipelines mainly rely on Multiple Sequence Alignments (MSAs) as inputs to learn the co-evolution information from…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-10-19 Xiaomin Fang , Fan Wang , Lihang Liu , Jingzhou He , Dayong Lin , Yingfei Xiang , Xiaonan Zhang , Hua Wu , Hui Li , Le Song

Protein folding neural networks (PFNNs) such as AlphaFold predict remarkably accurate structures of proteins compared to other approaches. However, the robustness of such networks has heretofore not been explored. This is particularly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-01-13 Ismail Alkhouri , Sumit Jha , Andre Beckus , George Atia , Alvaro Velasquez , Rickard Ewetz , Arvind Ramanathan , Susmit Jha