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3 claims from 2 papers

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

   Protein 3D Structure Computed from Evolutionary Sequence Variation

   Marks, Colwell, Sheridan et al. · PLoS ONE · 2011

   Using a maximum entropy model on aligned protein sequences, the authors infer residue couplings and use them to compute 3D structures of fifteen test proteins from sequence alone.

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   1. UncheckedResidue-pair couplings inferred from related protein sequences predict which amino acids sit close together in the folded protein, the paper reports.“Surprisingly, we find that the strength of these inferred couplings is an excellent predictor of residue-residue proximity in folded structures.”

2. 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

   The paper introduces OmegaFold, a method that predicts high-resolution protein structures from a single amino acid sequence, without needing multiple sequence alignments.

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   1. UncheckedOmegaFold, which predicts protein structure from a single sequence, is reported to beat RoseTTAFold and match AlphaFold2 on recently released structures.“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 to AlphaFold2 on recently released structu…”
   2. UncheckedOmegaFold is reported to predict structures accurately for orphan proteins and for antibodies, whose sequence alignments tend to be noisy.“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.”