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6 claims from 3 papers

1. 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.”

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

   OpenFold: retraining AlphaFold2 yields new insights into its learning mechanisms and capacity for generalization

   Ahdritz, Bouatta, Floristean et al. · Nature Methods · 2024

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   1. Unchecked“We find that OpenFold is remarkably robust at generalizing despite extreme reductions in training set size and diversity, including near-complete elisions of classes of secondary structure elements.”

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

   OpenFold: retraining AlphaFold2 yields new insights into its learning mechanisms and capacity for generalization

   Ahdritz, Bouatta, Floristean et al. · Nature Methods · 2024

   The authors present OpenFold, a trainable open implementation of AlphaFold2, and use it to study how the model generalises and how it learns to fold proteins.

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   1. UncheckedThe authors say OpenFold, trained from scratch by them, matches the prediction accuracy of AlphaFold2.“We train OpenFold from scratch, matching the accuracy of AlphaFold2.”
   2. Unchecked“Having established parity, we find that OpenFold is remarkably robust at generalizing even when the size and diversity of its training set is deliberately limited, including near-complete elisions of classes of secondary structure elements.”
   3. UncheckedLooking at structures OpenFold produced during training gives insight into how it learns to fold proteins in a hierarchical manner.“By analyzing intermediate structures produced during training, we also gain insights into the hierarchical manner in which OpenFold learns to fold.”