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

   Distance-AF improves predicted protein structure models by AlphaFold2 with user-specified distance constraints

   Zhang, Zhang, Kagaya et al. · Communications Biology · 2025

   The authors present Distance-AF, which adds user-specified distance constraints to AlphaFold2 to improve difficult predictions, and test it against other methods and in several applications.

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   1. UncheckedOn a test set of 25 targets, Distance-AF lowered the average RMSD to the native structure by 11.75 Å compared with AlphaFold2's models.“Distance-AF reduced the root mean square deviation (RMSD) of structure models to native on average by 11.75 Å when compared to the models by AlphaFold2 on a test set of 25 targets.”
   2. UncheckedOn the paper's 25-target test set, Distance-AF models averaged 4.22 Å RMSD from the native structure, versus 6.40 Å for Rosetta and 14.29 Å for AlphaLink.“The average RMSD values for Distance-AF, Rosetta, and AlphaLink were 4.22 Å, 6.40 Å, and 14.29 Å, respectively.”