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. 2022 Dec 14:11:38.
doi: 10.12703/r-01-0000020. eCollection 2022.

Solution of the protein structure prediction problem at last: crucial innovations and next frontiers

David A Agard  1 , Gregory R Bowman  2 , William DeGrado  3 , Nikolay V Dokholyan  4 , Huan-Xiang Zhou  5
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Solution of the protein structure prediction problem at last: crucial innovations and next frontiers

David A Agard et al. Fac Rev. .

Abstract

The protein structure prediction problem is solved, at last, thanks in large part to the use of artificial intelligence. The structures predicted by AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold are becoming the requisite starting point for many protein scientists. New frontiers, such as the conformational sampling of intrinsically disordered proteins, are emerging.

Keywords: AlphaFold; RossTTAFold; protein structure; three-dimensional structure.

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The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Comment on

  • Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold.
    Jumper J, Evans R, Pritzel A, Green T, Figurnov M, Ronneberger O, Tunyasuvunakool K, Bates R, Žídek A, Potapenko A, Bridgland A, Meyer C, Kohl SAA, Ballard AJ, Cowie A, Romera-Paredes B, Nikolov S, Jain R, Adler J, Back T, Petersen S, Reiman D, Clancy E, Zielinski M, Steinegger M, Pacholska M, Berghammer T, Bodenstein S, Silver D, Vinyals O, Senior AW, Kavukcuoglu K, Kohli P, Hassabis D. Jumper J, et al. Nature. 2021 Aug;596(7873):583-589. doi: 10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2. Epub 2021 Jul 15. Nature. 2021. PMID: 34265844 Free PMC article.
  • Accurate prediction of protein structures and interactions using a three-track neural network.
    Baek M, DiMaio F, Anishchenko I, Dauparas J, Ovchinnikov S, Lee GR, Wang J, Cong Q, Kinch LN, Schaeffer RD, Millán C, Park H, Adams C, Glassman CR, DeGiovanni A, Pereira JH, Rodrigues AV, van Dijk AA, Ebrecht AC, Opperman DJ, Sagmeister T, Buhlheller C, Pavkov-Keller T, Rathinaswamy MK, Dalwadi U, Yip CK, Burke JE, Garcia KC, Grishin NV, Adams PD, Read RJ, Baker D. Baek M, et al. Science. 2021 Aug 20;373(6557):871-876. doi: 10.1126/science.abj8754. Epub 2021 Jul 15. Science. 2021. PMID: 34282049 Free PMC article.

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    2. Faculty Opinions Recommendation

    1. Jumper J, Evans R, Pritzel A, Green T, Figurnov M, Ronneberger O, Tunyasuvunakool K, Bates R, Žídek A, Potapenko A, Bridgland A, Meyer C, Kohl SAA, Ballard AJ, Cowie A, Romera-Paredes B, Nikolov S, Jain R, Adler J, Back T, Petersen S, Reiman D, Clancy E, Zielinski M, Steinegger M, Pacholska M, Berghammer T, Bodenstein S, Silver D, Vinyals O, Senior AW, Kavukcuoglu K, Kohli P, Hassabis D. 2021. Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold Nature 596:583–589. 10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

    2. Faculty Opinions Recommendation

    1. Baek M, DiMaio F, Anishchenko I, Dauparas J, Ovchinnikov S, Lee GR, Wang J, Cong Q, Kinch LN, Schaeffer RD, Millán C, Park H, Adams C, Glassman CR, DeGiovanni A, Pereira JH, Rodrigues AV, van Dijk AA, Ebrecht AC, Opperman DJ, Sagmeister T, Buhlheller C, Pavkov-Keller T, Rathinaswamy MK, Dalwadi U, Yip CK, Burke JE, Garcia KC, Grishin NV, Adams PD, Read RJ, Baker D. 2021. Accurate prediction of protein structures and interactions using a three-track neural network Science 373:871–876. 10.1126/science.abj8754 - DOI - PMC - PubMed

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