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Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold

Jumper J, Evans R, +29 · Nature · 2021

Summary

Predicts 3D protein structures from sequence alone at near-experimental accuracy, with a per-residue confidence score you can act on.

Structural biologyDeep learningProteins
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How accurate is it versus experiments?
For most targets it’s competitive with experimental structure determination.

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…it predicts atomic coordinates with accuracy that is, for most targets, competitive with experimental structure determination.

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