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Protein structures and functions are determined by a contiguous arrangement of amino acid sequences. Designing novel protein sequences and structures with desired geometry and functions is a complex task with large state spaces. Here we…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2022-09-01 Xeerak Agha , Nihang Fu , Jianjun Hu

AlphaFold 3 (AF3) is a powerful biomolecular structure-predicting tool based on the latest deep learning algorithms and revolutionized AI model architectures. A few of papers have already investigated its accuracy in predicting different…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-19 Yiyang Xu , Ziyou Shen , Yanqing Lv , Shutong Tan , Chun Sun , Juan Zhang

The goal of Protein Structure Prediction (PSP) problem is to predict a protein's 3D structure (confirmation) from its amino acid sequence. The problem has been a 'holy grail' of science since the Noble prize-winning work of Anfinsen…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-01-24 Abbi Abdel-Rehim , Oghenejokpeme Orhobor , Hang Lou , Hao Ni , Ross D. King

Protein secondary structure prediction is an important problem in bioinformatics. Inspired by the recent successes of deep neural networks, in this paper, we propose an end-to-end deep network that predicts protein secondary structures from…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-27 Zhen Li , Yizhou Yu

AI algorithms have proven to be excellent predictors of protein structure, but whether and how much these algorithms can capture the underlying physics remains an open question. Here, we aim to test this question using the Alphafold2 (AF)…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2024-07-22 John M Mcbride , Tsvi Tlusty

Predicting protein structure from the amino acid sequence has been a challenge with theoretical and practical significance in biophysics. Despite the recent progresses elicited by improved residue-residue contact prediction, contact-based…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2019-12-19 Wenze Ding , Haipeng Gong

Inverse protein folding, the process of designing sequences that fold into a specific 3D structure, is crucial in bio-engineering and drug discovery. Traditional methods rely on experimentally resolved structures, but these cover only a…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2023-11-27 Igor Melnyk , Aurelie Lozano , Payel Das , Vijil Chenthamarakshan

Recent advancements in protein structure prediction, particularly AlphaFold2, have revolutionized structural biology by achieving near-experimental accuracy ($\text{average RMSD} < 1.5\text{\AA}$). However, the computational demands of…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-09 Joongwon Chae , Zhenyu Wang , Ijaz Gul , Jiansong Ji , Zhenglin Chen , Peiwu Qin

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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2015-03-13 Debora S. Marks , Lucy J. Colwell , Robert Sheridan , Thomas A. Hopf , Andrea Pagnani , Riccardo Zecchina , Chris Sander

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

In this paper we experiment with using neural network structures to predict a protein's secondary structure ({\alpha} helix positions) from only its primary structure (amino acid sequence). We implement a fully connected neural network…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-25 Sidharth Malhotra , Robin Walters

Predicting protein secondary structures such as alpha helices, beta sheets, and coils from amino acid sequences is essential for understanding protein function. This work presents a transformer-based model that applies attention mechanisms…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Manzi Kevin Maxime

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…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2022-06-22 Vojtěch Spiwok , Martin Kurečka , Aleš Křenek

Data-driven predictive methods which can efficiently and accurately transform protein sequences into biologically active structures are highly valuable for scientific research and medical development. Determining accurate folding landscape…

Background:Prediction of protein three-dimensional structures from amino acid sequences is a long-standing goal in computational/molecular biology. The successful discrimination of protein folds would help to improve the accuracy of protein…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2007-05-23 Y-h. Taguchi , M. Michael Gromiha

The computational prediction of a protein structure from its sequence generally relies on a method to assess the quality of protein models. Most assessment methods rank candidate models using heavily engineered structural features, defined…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2018-11-26 Georgy Derevyanko , Sergei Grudinin , Yoshua Bengio , Guillaume Lamoureux

The AlphaFold series has transformed protein structure prediction with remarkable accuracy, often matching experimental methods. AlphaFold2, AlphaFold-Multimer, and the latest AlphaFold3 represent significant strides in predicting single…

Proteins exist as a dynamic ensemble of multiple conformations, and these motions are often crucial for their functions. However, current structure prediction methods predominantly yield a single conformation, overlooking the conformational…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-06-18 Advaith Maddipatla , Nadav Bojan Sellam , Meital Bojan , Sanketh Vedula , Paul Schanda , Ailie Marx , Alex M. Bronstein

Models such as AlphaFold2 and OpenFold have transformed protein structure prediction, yet their inner workings remain poorly understood. We present a methodology to systematically evaluate the contribution of individual OpenFold components…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2025-11-20 Tyler L. Hayes , Giri P. Krishnan

Pre-trained models have been successful in many protein engineering tasks. Most notably, sequence-based models have achieved state-of-the-art performance on protein fitness prediction while structure-based models have been used…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-07-25 Antonia Boca , Simon Mathis