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

   Fast and accurate protein structure search with Foldseek

   van Kempen, Kim, Tumescheit et al. · Nature Biotechnology · 2023

   The paper presents Foldseek, a tool that searches large protein structure databases by turning 3D structure into sequences over a structural alphabet, aiming to remove a growing search bottleneck.

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   1. UncheckedFoldseek searches protein structures four to five orders of magnitude faster than Dali, TM-align and CE, at 86%, 88% and 133% of their sensitivities.“Foldseek decreases computation times by four to five orders of magnitude with 86%, 88% and 133% of the sensitivities of Dali, TM-align and CE, respectively.”

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

   CATHe2: Enhanced CATH superfamily detection using ProstT5 and structural alphabets

   Mouret and Abbass · Biology Methods and Protocols · 2025

   CATHe2 classifies protein domains into CATH superfamilies using the ProstT5 language model and 3Di structural embeddings, and reports higher F1 score and accuracy than the earlier CATHe.

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   1. UncheckedA simplified CATHe2 using only amino acid sequences improves on CATHe's F1 score by 6.7% and accuracy by 6.6% on the largest dataset.“This model uses ProstT5 amino acid (AA) sequence and 3Di sequence embeddings as input to the classifier, but a simplified version requiring only AA sequences, already improves CATHe’s F1 score by 6.7% ± 1.3% and accuracy by 6.6% ± 0.7% on its largest dataset.”