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

   Improved protein structure prediction using potentials from deep learning

   Senior, Evans, Jumper et al. · Nature · 2020

   The authors trained a neural network to predict distances between amino acid residues, built a potential from them, and used it in AlphaFold, which performed well in the CASP13 blind assessment.

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   1. UncheckedA potential built from predicted residue distances can be optimised by simple gradient descent to produce protein structures, without complex sampling.“We find that the resulting potential can be optimized by a simple gradient descent algorithm to generate structures without complex sampling procedures.”
   2. UncheckedIn the CASP13 blind assessment, AlphaFold reached TM scores of 0.7 or higher on 24 of 43 free modelling domains; the next best method managed 14 of 43.“In the recent Critical Assessment of Protein Structure Prediction 5 (CASP13)-a blind assessment of the state of the field-AlphaFold created high-accuracy structures (with template modelling (TM) scores 6 of 0.7 or higher) for 24 out of 43 free modelling domains, whereas the next best method, which…”
   3. Unchecked“Here we show that we can train a neural network to make accurate predictions of the distances between pairs of residues, which convey more information about the structure than contact predictions.”