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58 claims from 33 papers, showing 21–33 of 33

1. 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.”

2. 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.”

3. 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.”

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

   Learning inverse folding from millions of predicted structures

   Hsu, Verkuil, Liu et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022

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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…

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

   OpenFold: retraining AlphaFold2 yields new insights into its learning mechanisms and capacity for generalization

   Ahdritz, Bouatta, Floristean et al. · Nature Methods · 2024

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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.”

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

   High-resolution de novo structure prediction from primary sequence

   Wu, Ding, Wang et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2022

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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.”

7. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Nuclear Structure and Function

   AI-based structure prediction empowers integrative structural analysis of human nuclear pores

   Mosalaganti, Obarska-Kosińska, Siggel et al. · Science · 2022

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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.”

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

   MSA Transformer

   Rao, Liu, Verkuil et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021

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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.”

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

   Clustering predicted structures at the scale of the known protein universe

   Barrio‐Hernandez, Yeo, Jänes et al. · Nature · 2023

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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.”

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

    Transformer protein language models are unsupervised structure learners

    Rao, Meier, Sercu, Ovchinnikov and Rives · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2020

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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.”

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

    Scalable emulation of protein equilibrium ensembles with generative deep learning

    Lewis, Hempel, Jiménez-Luna et al. · Science · 2025

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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.”

12. 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.”

13. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

    arXiv 2304.02496

    arXiv 2304.02496: its details are not yet in from OpenAlex

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    1. Unchecked“Despite the excitement around viral ChatGPT, we found that fine-tuning for two fundamental NLP tasks remained the best strategy.”
    2. Unchecked“The simple BoW model performed on par with the most complex LLM prompting.”