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13 claims from 6 papers

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

   Evaluation and improvement of multiple sequence methods for protein secondary structure prediction

   Cuff and Barton · Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics · 1999

   The paper built a new set of 396 protein domains to compare four secondary structure predictors, tested a simple consensus of them, and examined how 8- to 3-state reduction affects reported accuracy.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors derive two new protein sequence datasets, CB513 and CB251, for cross-validating secondary structure prediction without artifacts from internal homology.“Two new sequence datasets (CB513 and CB251) are derived which are suitable for cross-validation of secondary structure prediction methods without artifacts due to internal homology.”
   2. UncheckedA simple consensus of four prediction methods, using automatically made sequence alignments, reached an average Q3 accuracy of 72.9% on 396 protein domains.“A simple consensus prediction on the 396 domains, with automatically generated multiple sequence alignments gives an average Q3 prediction accuracy of 72.9%.”
   3. UncheckedDifferent published ways of reducing 8 secondary structure states to 3 change apparent prediction accuracy by over 3%.“Application of the different published 8- to 3-state reduction methods shows variation of over 3% on apparent prediction accuracy.”

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

   Harnessing protein folding neural networks for peptide–protein docking

   Tsaban, Varga, Avraham, Ben-Aharon, Khramushin and Schueler‐Furman · Nature Communications · 2022

   The authors show that AlphaFold2, designed for folding single proteins, can model peptide–protein complexes, and they compare it with the peptide docking protocol PIPER-FlexPepDock.

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   1. UncheckedAlphaFold2, built to fold single proteins, can also model how peptides bind to proteins, quickly and accurately, according to the authors.“Here, we show that, although these deep learning approaches have originally been developed for the in silico folding of protein monomers, AlphaFold2 also enables quick and accurate modeling of peptide–protein interactions.”
   2. UncheckedA simple use of AlphaFold2 can model peptide–protein complexes without peptide sequence alignments and can handle receptor shape changes on binding.“Our simple implementation of AlphaFold2 generates peptide–protein complex models without requiring multiple sequence alignment information for the peptide partner, and can handle binding-induced conformational changes of the receptor.”

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

   Improved prediction of protein-protein interactions using AlphaFold2

   Bryant, Pozzati and Elofsson · Nature Communications · 2022

   The authors applied AlphaFold2 to predict heterodimeric protein complexes, and built a score from the predicted interfaces to judge model quality and to tell interacting from non-interacting protein pairs.

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   1. UncheckedAlphaFold2 with optimised sequence alignments produced acceptable-quality models (DockQ ≥ 0.23) for 63% of the heterodimeric protein complexes tested.“We find that the AlphaFold2 protocol together with optimised multiple sequence alignments, generate models with acceptable quality (DockQ ≥ 0.23) for 63% of the dimers.”
   2. Unchecked“From the predicted interfaces we create a simple function to predict the DockQ score which distinguishes acceptable from incorrect models as well as interacting from non-interacting proteins with state-of-art accuracy.”

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

   MSA Transformer

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

   The authors introduce a protein language model that takes a multiple sequence alignment as input, combining single-sequence language models with family-based methods, and report strong structure-learning performance.

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   1. UncheckedA protein language model fed aligned sets of related sequences beats leading unsupervised structure-learning methods by a wide margin, using far fewer parameters.“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.”

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

   Learning generative models for protein fold families

   Balakrishnan, Kamisetty, Carbonell, Lee and LANGMEAD · Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics · 2010

   The paper introduces GREMLIN, a convex-optimisation method that learns generative graphical models of protein families from alignments and reports better results than an existing method and Hidden Markov Models.

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   1. UncheckedOn the WW and PDZ protein domains, the GREMLIN method is reported to beat an existing algorithm for learning undirected graphical models from sequence alignments.“We perform a detailed analysis of covariation statistics on the extensively studied WW and PDZ domains and show that our method out‐performs an existing algorithm for learning undirected probabilistic graphical models from MSA.”
   2. UncheckedThe authors say that framing model learning as a convex optimisation problem means the method finds the globally best model once it converges.“We formulate and solve a convex optimization problem, thus guaranteeing that we find a globally optimal model at convergence.”
   3. UncheckedModels built with the authors' GREMLIN method, applied to 71 more PFAM protein families, are reported to predict sequences significantly better than Hidden Markov Models.“We then apply our approach to 71 additional families from the PFAM database and demonstrate that the resulting models significantly out‐perform Hidden Markov Models in terms of predictive accuracy.”

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

   CASP16 Protein Monomer Structure Prediction Assessment

   Yuan, Zhang, Kryshtafovych et al. · Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics · 2025

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   1. Unchecked“The assessment of monomer targets in the Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction Round 16 (CASP16) underscores that the problem of single‐domain protein fold prediction is nearly solved—no target folds were incorrectly predicted across all Evaluation Uni…
   2. Unchecked“The release of AlphaFold3 (AF3) during CASP16, and its effective integration by many groups, demonstrated its superiority over AlphaFold2 (AF2), particularly in confidence estimation and model selection.”