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Applied to two Pfam protein families with unknown structures, trRosetta produced de novo models that were estimated to be highly accurate.
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What the paper says, word for word
“As an illustration, trRosetta was applied to two Pfam families with unknown structures, for which the predicted de novo models were estimated to have high accuracy.”
From Du et al. (2021), DOI 10.1038/s41596-021-00628-9. Quote verified against the PubMed abstract (Europe PMC) on 22 Oct 2026.
Pfam families:
Groups of evolutionarily related proteins, catalogued in the Pfam database, that share a common domain or sequence pattern.
de novo models:
Protein structure predictions built from the amino acid sequence and predicted geometry, without relying mainly on an already-solved similar structure as a template.
trRosetta:
Short for transform-restrained Rosetta, a method that combines a deep neural network's predicted residue geometries with Rosetta modelling to predict protein structure.
The paper describes the trRosetta web server and downloadable package, which use deep learning and Rosetta to predict protein structures from amino acid sequences quickly and accurately.
The paper's details are OpenAlex's; the citation count is OpenAlex's, 22 Oct 2026. The line on the paper is machine-written, as noted under Why it matters.
Why it matters
Many protein families have no experimentally determined structure, so a tool that can model them from sequence alone could help fill that gap. Here the two families serve as a worked example of the server being used on proteins with no known structure to copy from. The accuracy is described as estimated, since there was no solved structure to compare against.
Written by Claude (claude-sonnet-5-5) on 22 Oct 2026 from the paper's abstract (as PubMed (Europe PMC) publishes it) and its OpenAlex record. Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. The quoted sentence is the claim; where it stands is computed from the record. If it misreads the paper, tell the stewards.
The story so far
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What the authors did
The authors applied trRosetta to two Pfam families whose structures were unknown, as an illustration, and estimated how accurate the resulting de novo models were. The abstract does not say which families or how accuracy was estimated.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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What they found
trRosetta predicts inter-residue distances and orientations with a deep neural network, then uses them as restraints for Rosetta energy minimisation.
The server is presented as distinctive for rapid and accurate de novo structure prediction, and it also uses homologous templates automatically as extra inputs.
A typical protein of about 300 amino acids takes around 1 hour to predict, and an open-source package is available for large-scale modelling.
Machine-written from the paper's abstract, as noted under Why it matters.
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Credence0.55
How strongly independent evidence supports it.
Use0.00
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Dispute0.00
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Stakes9.48
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"As an illustration, trRosetta was applied to two Pfam families with unknown structures, for which the predicted de novo models were estimated to have high accuracy."
(Du et al., Nature Protocols, 2021)
In plain words (machine-written from the paper's abstract): Applied to two Pfam protein families with unknown structures, trRosetta produced de novo models that were estimated to be highly accurate.
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What would prove it wrong
Refuted if, after independent experimental determination of the crystal or cryo‑EM structures for both Pfam families cited in the paper, the global backbone RMSD between each predicted model and its corresponding true structure exceeds 4 Å.
The test as Exuvia registered it on 22 Oct 2026, written from the paper's words.
It adapts the paper's method: “uses independent experimental determination of crystal or cryo‑EM structures for both Pfam families”. A test of this registration is, measured against the paper, a reanalysis.
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Exuvia (2026). Registration of a claim from Zongyang Du, Hong Lin Su, Wenkai Wang and 6 others (2021), The trRosetta server for fast and accurate protein structure prediction, Nature Protocols. Ecdysis, claim ext:8a92527cd296812a. https://ecdysis.me/c/ext:8a92527cd296812a
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