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Protein structure prediction models such as AlphaFold3 (AF3) push the frontier of biomolecular modeling by incorporating science-informed architectural changes to the transformer architecture. However, these advances come at a steep system…

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Predicting which proteins interact together from amino-acid sequences is an important task. We develop a method to pair interacting protein sequences which leverages the power of protein language models trained on multiple sequence…

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Numerous machine learning (ML) models employed in protein function and structure prediction depend on evolutionary information, which is captured through multiple-sequence alignments (MSA) or position-specific scoring matrices (PSSM) as…

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Protein folding is the intricate process by which a linear sequence of amino acids self-assembles into a unique three-dimensional structure. Protein folding kinetics is the study of pathways and time-dependent mechanisms a protein undergoes…

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Deep neural networks such as AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold predict remarkably accurate structures of proteins compared to other algorithmic approaches. It is known that biologically small perturbations in the protein sequence do not lead to…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2021-09-21 Sumit Kumar Jha , Arvind Ramanathan , Rickard Ewetz , Alvaro Velasquez , Susmit Jha

AlphaFold has transformed protein structure prediction, but emerging applications such as virtual ligand screening, proteome-wide folding, and de novo binder design demand predictions at a massive scale, where runtime and memory costs…

Deep learning-based approaches, such as AlphaFold2 (AF2), have significantly advanced protein tertiary structure prediction, achieving results comparable to real biological experimental methods. While AF2 has shown limitations in predicting…

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Protein folding models have achieved groundbreaking results typically via a combination of integrating domain knowledge into the architectural blocks and training pipelines. Nonetheless, given the success of generative models across…

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AlphaFold2 (AF) is a promising tool, but is it accurate enough to predict single mutation effects? Here, we report that the localized structural deformation between protein pairs differing by only 1-3 mutations -- as measured by the…

AlphaFold2 (AF2) has emerged in recent years as a groundbreaking innovation that has revolutionized several scientific fields, in particular structural biology, drug design and the elucidation of disease mechanisms. Many scientists now use…

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Protein language models have excelled in a variety of tasks, ranging from structure prediction to protein engineering. However, proteins are highly diverse in functions and structures, and current state-of-the-art models including the…

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Protein structure prediction helps to understand gene translation and protein function, which is of growing interest and importance in structural biology. The AlphaFold model, which used transformer architecture to achieve atomic-level…

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Protein design using structure prediction models such as AlphaFold2 has shown remarkable success, but existing approaches like relaxed sequence optimization (RSO) rely on single-path gradient descent and ignore sequence-space constraints,…

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PyMOLfold is a flexible and open-source plugin designed to seamlessly integrate AI-based protein structure prediction and visualization within the widely used PyMOL molecular graphics system. By leveraging state-of-the-art protein folding…

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The evolutionary trajectory of a protein through sequence space is constrained by function and three-dimensional (3D) structure. Residues in spatial proximity tend to co-evolve, yet attempts to invert the evolutionary record to identify…

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The Gene or DNA sequence in every cell does not control genetic properties on its own; Rather, this is done through translation of DNA into protein and subsequent formation of a certain 3D structure. The biological function of a protein is…

Computational Engineering, Finance, and Science · Computer Science 2019-05-30 Leila Khalatbari , Mohammad Reza Kangavari , Saeid Hosseini , Hongzhi Yin , Ngai-Man Cheung

After AlphaFold won the Nobel Prize, protein prediction with deep learning once again became a hot topic. We comprehensively explore advanced deep learning methods applied to protein structure prediction and design. It begins by examining…

AlphaFold is a neural-network-based tool for the prediction of 3D structures of protein. In CASP14, a blind structure prediction challenge, it performed significantly better than other competitors, which makes it the best available…

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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…

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