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66 claims from 41 papers, showing 21–40 of 41

1. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

   arXiv 0811.1826

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   1. Unchecked“We show that the rate at which errors accumulate in the integration of velocity depends on the network's organization and size, and on the intrinsic noise within the network.”
   2. Unchecked“We show, in contrast to previous models, that continuous attractor models can generate regular triangular grid responses, based on inputs that encode only the rat's velocity and heading.”

2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

   DeepLoc 2.0: multi-label subcellular localization prediction using protein language models

   Thumuluri, Armenteros, Johansen, Nielsen and Winther · Nucleic Acids Research · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“We achieve state-of-the-art performance in DeepLoc 2.0 by using a pre-trained protein language model.”
   2. Unchecked“We find that the attention output correlates well with the position of sorting signals.”

3. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Advanced Electron Microscopy Techniques and Applications

   Automated model building and protein identification in cryo-EM maps

   Jamali, Käll, Zhang, Brown, Kimanius and Scheres · Nature · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“By combining information from the cryo-EM map with information from protein sequence and structure in a single graph neural network, ModelAngelo builds atomic models for proteins that are of similar quality to those generated by human experts.”
   2. Unchecked“For nucleotides, ModelAngelo builds backbones with similar accuracy to those built by humans.”
   3. Unchecked“By using its predicted amino acid probabilities for each residue in hidden Markov model sequence searches, ModelAngelo outperforms human experts in the identification of proteins with unknown sequences.”

4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

   A structural biology community assessment of AlphaFold2 applications

   Akdel, Pires, Porta‐Pardo et al. · Nature Structural & Molecular Biology · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“For 11 proteomes, an average of 25% additional residues can be confidently modeled when compared with homology modeling, identifying structural features rarely seen in the Protein Data Bank.”

5. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms

   Rapamycin‐mediated lifespan increase in mice is dose and sex dependent and metabolically distinct from dietary restriction

   Miller, Harrison, Astle et al. · Aging Cell · 2013

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   1. Supported · 71%“Rapamycin increased lifespan more in females than in males at each dose evaluated, perhaps reflecting sexual dimorphism in blood levels of this drug.”

6. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

   Language models enable zero-shot prediction of the effects of mutations on protein function

   Meier, Rao, Verkuil, Liu, Sercu and Rives · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“We show that using only zero-shot inference, without any supervision from experimental data or additional training, protein language models capture the functional effects of sequence variation, performing at state-of-the-art.”

7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics

   Scaffolding protein functional sites using deep learning

   Wang, Lisanza, Juergens et al. · Science · 2022

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   1. Unchecked“The first approach, “constrained hallucination,” optimizes sequences such that their predicted structures contain the desired functional site.”

8. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

   DOI 10.1101/2022.04.10.487779

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   1. Unchecked“Trained with this additional data, a sequence-to-sequence transformer with invariant geometric input processing layers achieves 51% native sequence recovery on structurally held-out backbones with 72% recovery for buried residues, an overall improvement of a…

9. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

   DOI 10.1038/s41592-024-02272-z

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   1. Unchecked“We train OpenFold from scratch, matching the accuracy of AlphaFold2.”
   2. Unchecked“Having established parity, we find that OpenFold is remarkably robust at generalizing even when the size and diversity of its training set is deliberately limited, including near-complete elisions of classes of secondary structure elements.”
   3. Unchecked“By analyzing intermediate structures produced during training, we also gain insights into the hierarchical manner in which OpenFold learns to fold.”

10. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    DOI 10.1101/2022.07.21.500999

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    1. Unchecked“Using a new combination of a protein language model that allows us to make predictions from single sequences and a geometry-inspired transformer model trained on protein structures, OmegaFold outperforms RoseTTAFold and achieves similar prediction accuracy t…
    2. Unchecked“OmegaFold enables accurate predictions on orphan proteins that do not belong to any functionally characterized protein family and antibodies that tend to have noisy MSAs due to fast evolution.”

11. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    Longer lifespan in male mice treated with a weakly estrogenic agonist, an antioxidant, an α‐glucosidase inhibitor or a Nrf2‐inducer

    Strong, Miller, Antebi et al. · Aging Cell 15(5) · 2016 · PubMed 27312235

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    1. Supported · 71%“17-α-estradiol at a threefold higher dose robustly extended both median and maximal lifespan, but still only in males.”

12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    DOI 10.1126/science.abm9506

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    1. Unchecked“Benchmarking against previous and unpublished x-ray and cryo–electron microscopy structures revealed unprecedented accuracy.”The quote differs from the paper's abstract; the stewards have been told.
    2. Unchecked“These simulations reveal that the NPC scaffold prevents the constriction of the otherwise stable double-membrane fusion pore to small diameters in the absence of membrane tension.”

13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    DOI 10.1101/2021.02.12.430858

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    1. Unchecked“The performance of the model surpasses current state-of-the-art unsupervised structure learning methods by a wide margin, with far greater parameter efficiency than prior state-of-the-art protein language models.”

14. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    DOI 10.1038/s41586-023-06510-w

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    1. Unchecked“Using this method, we have clustered all of the structures in the AlphaFold database, identifying 2.30 million non-singleton structural clusters, of which 31% lack annotations representing probable previously undescribed structures.”
    2. Unchecked“Clusters without annotation tend to have few representatives covering only 4% of all proteins in the AlphaFold database.”

15. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    DOI 10.1101/2020.12.15.422761

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    1. Unchecked“In this paper we demonstrate that Transformer attention maps learn contacts from the unsupervised language modeling objective.”
    2. Unchecked“We find the highest capacity models that have been trained to date already outperform a state-of-the-art unsupervised contact prediction pipeline, suggesting these pipelines can be replaced with a single forward pass of an end-to-end model.”

16. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    DOI 10.1126/science.adv9817

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    1. Unchecked“It captures diverse functional motions—including cryptic pocket formation, local unfolding, and domain rearrangements—and predicts relative free energies with 1 kilocalorie per mole accuracy compared with millisecond-scale MD and experimental data.”

17. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    DOI 10.1038/s41596-024-01060-5

    DOI 10.1038/s41596-024-01060-5: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“ColabFold-AF2 shortens turnaround times of experiments because of its optimized usage of AF2's models.”
    2. Unchecked“Using Google Colaboratory, it takes <2 h to run each procedure.”

18. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    Acarbose improves health and lifespan in aging HET3 mice

    Harrison, Strong, Alavez et al. · Aging Cell 18(2) · 2019 · DOI 10.1111/acel.12898

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    1. Supported · 71%“The two higher doses produced 16% or 17% increases in median longevity of males, but only 4% or 5% increases in females. Age at the 90th percentile was increased significantly (8%–11%) in males at each dose, but was significantly increased (3%) in females on…

19. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    Canagliflozin extends life span in genetically heterogeneous male but not female mice

    Miller, Harrison, Allison et al. · JCI Insight 5(21) · 2020 · DOI 10.1172/jci.insight.140019

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    1. Supported · 71%“Cana extended median survival of male mice by 14%. Cana also increased by 9% the age for 90th percentile survival, with parallel effects seen at each of 3 test sites.”

20. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    17‐a‐estradiol late in life extends lifespan in aging UM‐HET3 male mice; nicotinamide riboside and three other drugs do not affect lifespan in either sex

    Harrison, Strong, Reifsnyder et al. · Aging Cell 20(5) · 2021 · DOI 10.1111/acel.13328

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    1. Supported · 71%“In genetically heterogeneous mice produced by the CByB6F1 x C3D2F1 cross, the “non‐feminizing” estrogen, 17‐α‐estradiol (17aE2), extended median male lifespan by 19% (p < 0.0001, log‐rank test) and 11% (p = 0.007) when fed at 14.4 ppm starting at 16 and 20 m…