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5 claims from 3 papers

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

   The authors assessed how well AlphaFold2 protein structure predictions work across several structural-biology applications, and conclude they are likely to have a transformative impact.

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   1. UncheckedAcross 11 proteomes, AlphaFold2 could confidently model on average 25% more residues than homology modelling, including features rarely seen in the Protein Data Bank.“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 › Protein Structure and Dynamics

   Easy and accurate protein structure prediction using ColabFold

   Kim, Lee, Karin et al. · Nature Protocols · 2024

   This protocol paper guides readers through using ColabFold-AF2, an easy-to-use tool for AlphaFold2 protein structure prediction, across monomer, complex and conformation-sampling scenarios.

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   1. UncheckedColabFold-AF2 is said to speed up experiments by using AlphaFold2's models in an optimised way.“ColabFold-AF2 shortens turnaround times of experiments because of its optimized usage of AF2's models.”
   2. UncheckedUsing Google Colaboratory, each of the paper's ColabFold procedures takes less than two hours to run.“Using Google Colaboratory, it takes <2 h to run each procedure.”

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

   Evaluating zero‐shot prediction of monomeric protein design success by AlphaFold , ESMFold , and ProteinMPNN

   Garcia, Dixit and Rocklin · Protein Science · 2026

   The authors tested whether AlphaFold, ProteinMPNN and ESMFold can separate experimentally successful from failed de novo protein designs, using 614 designed monomers from 11 earlier studies.

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   1. UncheckedAlphaFold, ESMFold and ProteinMPNN each showed moderate ability to tell successful de novo designed monomers from failed ones in a 614-design benchmark.“All predictive models demonstrated moderate ability to discriminate experimental successes (expressed, soluble, monomeric, and fold with the correct secondary structure) from failures.”
   2. Unchecked“A logistic regression model combining all confidence metrics provided only modest improvement over ESMFold pLDDT alone.”