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Deep learning approaches have revolutionized protein structure prediction. These tools are trained using experimental data and recapitulate reported conformations, but there is great interest in predicting conformations that may be functionally relevant althou…
preprints
2026
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UniPert-G2CP (Li et al., Cell, 2026) bridges genetic and chemical screens from molecular representation to phenotype modeling across five cancer cell lines [1]. Here we extend this architecture to 162 cell lines, 32,039 compounds, and genome-wide output (12,32…
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2026
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Partner-specific protein-protein binding site prediction, identifying which residues of a protein form the interface when bound to a specific partner, remains a challenging task with significant implications for drug discovery and understanding of protein stru…
preprints
2026
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Connecting the dots among the amino acid sequence of a protein, its structure, and its function remains a central theme in molecular biology, as it would have many applications in the treatment of illnesses related to misfolding or protein instability. As a re…
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2018
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Virtual screening asks which molecules, among an enormous space of drug-like chemistry, are worth synthesizing and testing against a protein target. Most modern methods answer this question by building and scoring an explicit three-dimensional pose through mol…
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2026
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Accurate prediction of effector proteins secreted by Gram-negative bacteria is important for elucidating bacterial pathogenic mechanisms and developing precise anti-infective strategies. Although existing methods have benefited from the strong sequence feature…
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2026
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Protein structure predictors achieve high single-state accuracy, but it remains unclear whether they can recover functionally relevant conformational ensembles or account for the presence of ligands and/or binding partners. Here, we benchmark AlphaFold3, Boltz…
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2026
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Protein language models learn general-purpose representations from large collections of protein sequences and structures, and have advanced the prediction of protein structure and function. ESM3 is a multimodal protein language model that ingests a protein thr…
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2026
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Abstract Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among ESKAPE pathogens poses an escalating threat to global health as conventional antibiotic pipelines fail to keep pace with emerging resistance. Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) have re-emerged as a promising alternative…
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2026
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Below 30% pairwise sequence identity, alignment-based methods struggle to reliably distinguish true homologs from chance, and enzyme function prediction degrades accordingly: on proteins in this regime, even advanced methods (CLEAN) achieves only 55.1% accurac…
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2026
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Proteins are inherently dynamic, with biological functions often emerging from transitions between multiple conformational states. While recent breakthroughs have largely addressed the static structure prediction problem, no systematic benchmark exists to demo…
preprints
2026
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Multiple AI prediction tools for protein structural ensembles have recently been released, building on the much heralded advances from AlphaFold, large language models, and other machine-learning approaches. Here we report on a comparison of several tools (Bio…
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2026
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Abstract Antibiotic resistance continues to rise, yet most new drug candidates act through long-established targets. Faster mode of action (MoA) assessment would enable more effective prioritization of screening hits and help identify compounds with novel mech…
preprints
2026
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Biomolecular structure prediction tools such as AlphaFold have achieved remarkable success in predicting structures of single proteins and multiprotein complexes. AlphaFold3 now incorporates the capability to model complexes containing nucleic acids and chemic…
preprints
2026
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Protein thermostability is a critical property for both industrial and biomedical enzyme applications, yet experimental evaluation of mutation-induced stability changes remains laborious and costly. Here, we present ThermoFusion, a hybrid deep learning framewo…
preprints
2026
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Abstract Predicting protein-ligand binding affinity from three-dimensional (3D) structural data is a central task in structure-based drug discovery, yet it remains challenging due to limited data availability, structural complexity, and the sparse nature of 3D…
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2026
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Abstract DNA sequences derived from ancient samples provide insights into human history, paleoenvironments, and evolutionary biology. Advances in laboratory techniques and computational tools have established ancient DNA research as a distinct field. However, …
preprints
2026
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ABSTRACT AlphaFold-Multimer (AFM) and AlphaFold3 (AF3) have revolutionized protein-protein complex structure prediction. However, it remains unclear whether elaborate MSA pairing is a strict prerequisite for achieving high accuracy. Here, we systematically eva…
preprints
2026
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Accurate in silico prediction of protein properties, functional fitness, and mutational effects remains a central challenge in protein engineering and therapeutic design. While Protein Language Models (PLMs) successfully capture rich evolutionary and functiona…
preprints
2026
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Network pharmacology has become a central paradigm in modern drug discovery, replacing the reductionist "one drug, one target" view with a systems-level understanding of how compounds engage networks of proteins that are linked to disease. Despite its impact, …
preprints
2026
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Abstract Despite transformative advances in protein structure prediction, generating conformational ensembles directly from sequence in an efficient and accessible manner remains a central challenge. We introduce a heuristic importance sampling framework for t…
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2026
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Generative models have become staple tools for modeling and designing biomolecular structures. However, although these tools have improved in structural prediction accuracy, their ability to filter designed binders—an essential use case—remains insufficient; w…
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2026
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Inverse-folding models can rapidly generate protein sequences compatible with a supplied backbone, but unconstrained redesign is poorly suited to enzyme and genome-editor-associated domains, where catalytic, substrate-proximal, and conserved structural regions…
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2026
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Phylogenetic inference is one of the most common downstream applications of multiple sequence alignment. Quantitative assessment of inferred trees is essential for evaluating the reliability of both alignments and phylogenetic inferences. Establishing a robust…
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2026
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Non-synonymous amino acid substitutions (missense mutations) are common in the general population; some are causative of serious disease. Depending on their structural context, they can disrupt protein function, folding, or dynamics. Computational predictive m…
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2026
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High-quality protein structure models have become widely available, offering insights into protein function, yet they remain underutilized. Here, we introduce metagenomic-deepFRI, a framework incorporating structural templates into functional annotation pipeli…
preprints
2026
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Deep learning-based protein structure prediction methods have led to a paradigm-shift in computational structural biology, yet reliably assessing the quality of computationally predicted multimeric structures remains challenging. Recent methods have demonstrat…
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2026
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy yields rich residue-level information on biomolecular dynamics and chemical environments, two frontiers for quantitative predictive methods in biochemistry. Decades of data are publicly archived in the Biological M…
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2026
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Proteins are highly diverse functional polymers where the specific sequence of amino acids, selected from a standard genetically-encoded alphabet of twenty (C20), determines the structure and ultimately the function of the resulting folded protein. This standa…
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2026
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Abstract Forecasting how aftershocks evolve in space and time after a large earthquake is a central problem in statistical seismology and underpins operational earthquake forecasting. Existing forecasting methods rest on statistical point-process models such a…
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2026
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Motivation Accurate prediction of functional sites from primary sequences is essential for elucidating biological mechanisms and advancing rational drug design. However, traditional sequence-based features are inherently unable to capture complex structural pr…
preprints
2026
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Abstract Background Ensete ventricosum , also known as the “tree against hunger” plays a key role in Ethiopian food security and farming systems, feeding more than 20 million people. Since domestication via clonal selection in the south-west Ethiopian highland…
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2026
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Deep learning models have emerged as promising tools in protein engineering. In particular, they can be used to predict mutation fitness without the need for task-specific training, a process known as zero-shot prediction. However, the respective strengths and…
preprints
2026
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Allosteric regulation represents a fundamental mechanism of protein function, yet distinguishing allosteric from orthosteric protein binding sites remains a persistent computational challenge. While multimodal protein foundation models offer the potential to i…
preprints
2026
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Motivation Protein complexes are central to cellular function, but experimental determination of their structures remains challenging. Structure prediction methods require prior knowledge of stoichiometry - the number of copies of each protein entity within a …
preprints
2026
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Computational generation of protein backbone geometry is a critical upstream step in de novo protein design, but the existing state of the art approaches typically requires large pretrained structure prediction networks, significant computing in frastructure, …
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2026
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All-atom molecular dynamics has become an indispensable tool in development of nanopore sensors of biological information. In a typical nanopore experiment, measurements of ionic current flowing through a nanopore report on the chemical structure of biomolecul…
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2026
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Protein–peptide interactions are important mediators of diverse biological processes. While deep learning has revolutionized protein structure prediction, comparative evaluation of these methods, specifically for protein–peptide complexes, remains an area of a…
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2026
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Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) govern a wide range of cellular functions. The ability to predict PPI interfaces from protein molecular surfaces is important for understanding protein function and enabling therapeutic discovery. While recent advances in st…
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2026
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A protein’s function is derived from its three-dimensional structure and the motions of the atoms about that structure. The detailed characterization of both macromolecular structure and dynamics provides an opportunity for understanding enzyme catalysis, liga…
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2026
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Over 99.9% of known protein sequences lack experimentally validated functional annotations. We present ProtJEPA, a multimodal Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture that trains a sequence-only student encoder to predict joint embeddings spanning ten biologica…
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2026
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Predicting gene essentiality across cellular contexts is a central challenge in computational biology, with implications for identifying cancer vulnerabilities. Graph neural networks (GNNs) integrate molecular interaction networks with gene-level features, but…
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2026
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Lanthipeptides are one of the largest classes of ribosomally synthesized and post-translationally modified peptides (RiPPs). The coi biosynthetic gene cluster (BGC) from Streptomyces coelicolor A3(2) encodes a canonical class I lanthipeptide dehydratase (CoiB)…
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2026
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Designing mutations that enhance protein stability is a central goal in protein engineering. However, experimentally screening large numbers of candidate mutations is costly and time-consuming, creating a strong need for computational methods that can identify…
preprints
2026
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Single-particle cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) reveals structural heterogeneity in macromolecular complexes, but recovering continuous conformational landscapes at high resolution remains challenging. Here, we introduce CryoARC, a deep learning framework t…
preprints
2026
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Designing binders against novel protein targets remains a central challenge in computational drug discovery. Here we introduce BoltzProt-1 , a pipeline for generating protein binders, including nanobodies, with improved hit rates and favorable developability p…
preprints
2026
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Bacteriophages (phages) play essential roles in microbial systems, yet most phage proteins remain poorly characterised. Protein tertiary and quaternary structure information contributes valuable information about protein function. As many phage proteins functi…
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2026
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ABSTRACT In silico approaches for predicting the functional impact of missense mutations are critical for interpreting personal genomes and identifying disease-related biomarkers. Existing methods largely rely on sequence-based information or intuitive structu…
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2026
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Proteins are fundamental macromolecules involved in virtually all biological processes. Their physiological roles are tightly linked to their three-dimensional structure, which can be naturally abstracted as Protein Contact Networks (PCNs), i.e., graphs where …
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2026
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Protein structures encode non-local contact organization, but static coordinates do not directly quantify how a contact network responds when effective stabilizing interactions are strengthened or weakened. Here we introduce Contact-Network Responsiveness (CNR…
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2026
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The voltage-gated potassium channel hERG (Kv11.1) plays a central role in cardiac repolarisation by mediating the rapid delayed rectifier K⁺ current (IKr). Blockage of hERG by small molecules can lead to delayed repolarisation, QT interval prolongation, and po…
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2026
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Motivation Antibody-antigen affinity determines which antibodies advance in therapeutic discovery, repertoire analysis and affinity maturation, but experimental measurements are sparse relative to the scale of sequence libraries. Structure-based predictors can…
preprints
2026
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Network pharmacology has become a central paradigm in modern drug discovery, replacing the reductionist "one drug, one target" view with a systems-level understanding of how compounds engage networks of proteins that are linked to disease. Despite its impact, …
preprints
2026
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Small annotated open reading frames are the most neglected part of the functionally un-characterised Mycobacterium tuberculosis genome. We revisit Rv0810c, a 60-residue protein carrying the unknown-function domain DUF3073 (Pfam PF11273), flagged as an Actinoba…
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2026
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Template-based modelling, also known as homology modelling, is a powerful approach to predict the structure of a protein from its amino acid sequence. The approach requires one to identify a sequence similarity between the query sequence and that of a known st…
europepmc
2025
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The structural diversity and good biocompatibility of cyclic peptides has led to their emergence as potential therapeutic agents. Traditional cyclic peptide design relies on natural template modification and combinatorial chemical library screening, but suffer…
europepmc
2025
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Schistosomiasis is a major neglected tropical disease that lacks an effective vaccine and faces increasing challenges from praziquantel resistance, underscoring the urgent need for novel therapeutics. Target-based drug discovery (TBDD) is a powerful strategy f…
europepmc
2025
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Despite recent advances in our understanding of the structure and function of conjugative Type 4 Secretion Systems (T4SSs), there is still only very scarce data available for the ones from Gram-positive (G + ) bacteria. This is a problem, as conjugative T4SSs …
europepmc
2025
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Abstract Peptide design, with the goal of identifying peptides possessing unique biological properties, stands as a crucial challenge in peptide-based drug discovery. While traditional and computational methods have made significant strides, they often encount…
europepmc
Dong Xu
2024
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A bstract Remarkable progress has been made in the field of protein structure prediction in the past years. State-of-the-art methods like AlphaFold2 and RoseTTAFold2 achieve prediction accuracy close to experimental structural determination, but at the cost of…
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Jian Hu, Weizhe Wang, Haipeng Gong
2024
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Abstract Since its public release in 2021, AlphaFold2 (AF2) has made investigating biological questions, using predicted protein structures of single monomers or full complexes, a common practice. ColabFold-AF2 is an open-source Jupyter Notebook inside Google …
europepmc
2023
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A comparative analysis between two problems-apparently unrelated-which are solved in a period of ~400 years, viz., the accurate prediction of both the planetary orbits and the protein structures, leads to inferred conjectures that go far beyond the existence o…
europepmc
2023
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Protein structure prediction (PSP) remains a central challenge in computational biology due to its inherent complexity and high dimensionality. While numerous heuristic approaches have appeared in the literature, their success varies. The AB off-lattice model,…
europepmc
2024
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The computational design of peptide binders towards a specific protein interface can aid diagnostic and therapeutic efforts. Here, we design peptide binders by combining the known structural space searched with Foldseek, the protein design method ESM-IF1, and …
europepmc
2023
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This year's Lasker Basic Science Award recognizes the invention of AlphaFold, a revolutionary advance in the history of protein research which for the first time offers the practical ability to accurately predict the three-dimensional arrangement of amino acid…
europepmc
2023
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The rapid evolution of protein structure prediction tools has significantly broadened access to protein structural data. Although predicted structure models have the potential to accelerate and impact fundamental and translational research significantly, it is…
europepmc
2025
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In Dec 2020, the results of AlphaFold version 2 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 prediction of s…
europepmc
2023
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Data-driven predictive methods that can efficiently and accurately transform protein sequences into biologically active structures are highly valuable for scientific research and medical development. Determining an accurate folding landscape using coevolutiona…
europepmc
2023
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The ability to predict a protein's three-dimensional conformation represents a crucial starting point for investigating evolutionary connections with other members of the corresponding protein family, examining interactions with other proteins, and potentially…
europepmc
2023
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The drug discovery process involves designing compounds to selectively interact with their targets. The majority of therapeutic targets for low molecular weight (small molecule) drugs are proteins. The outstanding accuracy with which recent artificial intellig…
europepmc
2023
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Computing protein structure from amino acid sequence information has been a long-standing grand challenge. CASP (Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction) conducts community experiments aimed at advancing solutions to this and related problems. Experiments …
europepmc
2023
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) crystallography is one of the main methods in structural biology for analyzing protein stereochemistry and structure. The chemical shift of the resonance frequency reflects the effect of the protons in a molecule producing dist…
europepmc
2024
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Nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) spectroscopy is a powerful method for studying the structure and dynamics of proteins in their native state. For high-resolution NMR structure determination, the collection of a rich restraint dataset is necessary. This can be …
europepmc
2023
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Protein structure determination is a critical aspect of biological research, enabling us to understand protein function and potential applications. Recent advances in deep learning and artificial intelligence have led to the development of several protein stru…
europepmc
2024
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We present the monomer and multimer structure prediction results of our methods in CASP15. We first designed an elaborate pipeline that leverages complementary sequence databases and advanced database searching algorithms to generate high-quality multiple sequ…
europepmc
2023
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Protein structure prediction is one of major problems of modern biophysics: current attempts to predict the tertiary protein structure from amino acid sequence are successful mostly when the use of big data and machine learning allows one to reduce the "predic…
europepmc
2023
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Three-dimensional protein structure is directly correlated with its function and its determination is critical to understanding biological processes and addressing human health and life science problems in general. Although new protein structures are experimen…
europepmc
2023
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In this paper we discuss the advantages and problems of two alternatives for ab initio protein structure prediction. On one hand, recent approaches based on deep learning, which have significantly improved prediction results for a wide variety of proteins, are…
europepmc
2023
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Motivation Accurate prediction of protein structures is crucial for understanding protein function, stability, and interactions, with far-reaching implications in drug discovery and protein engineering. As the fields of structural bioinformatics and artificial…
europepmc
2023
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The rapid evolution of protein structure prediction tools has significantly broadened access to protein structural data. Although predicted structure models have the potential to accelerate and impact fundamental and translational research significantly, it is…
europepmc
2023
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Protein structure prediction (PSP) is a key concern in computational biology, which is considered a challenging task that is vital to determine the structure and the protein function since each protein possesses a definite shape, whereas the protein secondary …
europepmc
2025
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Protein structure prediction has been a challenging problem for >60 years. Its progress has been considered incremental for the past 20 years until leaps were made by AlphaFold that seemed to suddenly reach experimental accuracy. We argue that this unexpected …
europepmc
2023
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Protein structure prediction is an interdisciplinary research topic that has attracted researchers from multiple fields, including biochemistry, medicine, physics, mathematics, and computer science. These researchers adopt various research paradigms to attack …
europepmc
2023
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europepmc
2023
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Significant advances have been achieved in protein structure prediction, especially with the recent development of the AlphaFold2 and the RoseTTAFold systems. This article reviews the progress in deep learning-based protein structure prediction methods in the …
europepmc
2022
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Understanding the conformational dynamics of proteins, such as the inward-facing (IF) and outward-facing (OF) transition observed in transporters, is vital for elucidating their functional mechanisms. Despite significant advances in protein structure predictio…
europepmc
2023
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Sequence covariation in multiple sequence alignments of homologous proteins has been used extensively to obtain insights into protein structure. However, global statistical inference is required in order to ascertain direct relationships between amino acid pos…
europepmc
2022
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Sequence covariation in multiple sequence alignments of homologous proteins has been used extensively to obtain insights into protein structure. However, global statistical inference is required in order to ascertain direct relationships between amino acid pos…
europepmc
2022
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Accurately capturing domain-domain interactions is key to understanding protein function and designing structure-based drugs. Although AlphaFold2 has made a breakthrough on single domain, it should be noted that the structure modeling for multi-domain protein …
europepmc
2023
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A bstract Protein structure prediction serves as an efficient tool, saving time and circumventing the need for laborious experimental endeavors. Distinguished methodologies, including AlphaFold, RoseTTAFold, and ESMFold, have proven their precision through rig…
europepmc
2023
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europepmc
2023
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Accurately predicting protein structure, from amino acid sequences to three-dimensional structures, is of great significance in biological research. To tackle this issue, a representative deep big model, RoseTTAFold, has been proposed with promising success. H…
europepmc
2023
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Improving protein thermostability has been a labor- and time-consuming process in industrial applications of protein engineering. Advances in computational approaches have facilitated the development of more efficient strategies to allow the prioritization of …
europepmc
2023
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Motivation Protein structure prediction has been greatly improved by deep learning, but the contribution of different information is yet to be fully understood. This article studies the impacts of two kinds of information for structure prediction: template and…
europepmc
2023
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Among new protein structure predictors, the recently developed AlphaFold predictor relies on contact map in line with contact map potential based threading model that basically relies on fold recognition. In parallel, sequence similarity based homology model r…
europepmc
2023
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Pyrazinamide (PZA) is considered to be a pivotal drug to shorten the treatment of both drug-susceptible and drug-resistant tuberculosis, but its use is challenged by the reliability of drug-susceptibility testing (DST). PZA resistance in Mycobacterium tubercul…
europepmc
2024
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Bacteriophages are the natural predators of bacteria and are available abundantly everywhere in nature. Lytic phages can specifically infect their bacterial host (through attachment to the receptor) and use their host replication machinery to replicate rapidly…
europepmc
2024
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Background The aqueous environment directs the protein folding process towards the generation of micelle-type structures, which results in the exposure of hydrophilic residues on the surface (polarity) and the concentration of hydrophobic residues in the cente…
europepmc
2023
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europepmc
2022
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While AlphaFold2 can predict accurate protein structures from the primary sequence, challenges remain for proteins that undergo conformational changes or for which few homologous sequences are known. Here we introduce AlphaLink, a modified version of the Alpha…
europepmc
2023
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