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32 claims from 20 papers

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

   AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models

   Váradi, Anyango, Deshpande et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“Powered by AlphaFold v2.0 of DeepMind, it has enabled an unprecedented expansion of the structural coverage of the known protein-sequence space.”
   2. Unchecked“The initial release of AlphaFold DB contains over 360,000 predicted structures across 21 model-organism proteomes, which will soon be expanded to cover most of the (over 100 million) representative sequences from the UniRef90 data set.”

2. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

   Accelerated Profile HMM Searches

   Eddy · PLoS Computational Biology · 2011

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   1. Unchecked“MSV scores follow the same statistical distribution as gapped optimal local alignment scores, allowing rapid evaluation of significance of an MSV score and thus facilitating its use as a heuristic filter.”
   2. Unchecked“HMMER3 is substantially more sensitive and 100- to 1000-fold faster than HMMER2.”

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

   Comparison of multiple Amber force fields and development of improved protein backbone parameters

   Horn̆ák, Abel, Okur, Strockbine, Roitberg and Simmerling · Proteins Structure Function and Bioinformatics · 2006

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   1. Unchecked“This parameter set, which we denote ff99SB, achieves a better balance of secondary structure elements as judged by improved distribution of backbone dihedrals for glycine and alanine with respect to PDB survey data.”

4. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

   UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021

   Bateman, Martin, Orchard et al. · Nucleic Acids Research · 2020

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   1. Unchecked“The number of sequences in UniProtKB has risen to approximately 190 million, despite continued work to reduce sequence redundancy at the proteome level.”

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

   Evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic-level protein structure with a language model

   Lin, Akin, Rao et al. · Science · 2023

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   1. Unchecked“We demonstrate direct inference of full atomic-level protein structure from primary sequence using a large language model.”

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

   Protein complex prediction with AlphaFold-Multimer

   Evans, O’Neill, Pritzel et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“On a benchmark dataset of 17 heterodimer proteins without templates (introduced in [2]) we achieve at least medium accuracy (DockQ [3] ≥ 0.49) on 13 targets and high accuracy (DockQ ≥ 0.8) on 7 targets, compared to 9 targets of at least medium accuracy and 4…
   2. Unchecked“For heteromeric interfaces we successfully predict the interface (DockQ ≥ 0.23) in 70% of cases, and produce high accuracy predictions (DockQ ≥ 0.8) in 26% of cases, an improvement of +27 and +14 percentage points over the flexible linker modification of Alp…
   3. Unchecked“For homomeric inter-faces we successfully predict the interface in 72% of cases, and produce high accuracy predictions in 36% of cases, an improvement of +8 and +7 percentage points respectively.”

7. 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

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   1. Unchecked“We find that the resulting potential can be optimized by a simple gradient descent algorithm to generate structures without complex sampling procedures.”
   2. Unchecked“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 doma…

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

   Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome

   Tunyasuvunakool, Adler, Wu et al. · Nature · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“The resulting dataset covers 58% of residues with a confident prediction, of which a subset (36% of all residues) have very high confidence.”

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

   Biological structure and function emerge from scaling unsupervised learning to 250 million protein sequences

   Rives, Meier, Sercu et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2021

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   1. Unchecked“We find that without prior knowledge, information emerges in the learned representations on fundamental properties of proteins such as secondary structure, contacts, and biological activity.”
   2. Unchecked“Unsupervised representation learning enables state-of-the-art supervised prediction of mutational effect and secondary structure and improves state-of-the-art features for long-range contact prediction.”

10. 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

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    1. Unchecked“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.”

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

    ProtTrans: Toward Understanding the Language of Life Through Self-Supervised Learning

    Elnaggar, Heinzinger, Dallago et al. · IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“Dimensionality reduction revealed that the raw pLM-embeddings from unlabeled data captured some biophysical features of protein sequences.”
    2. Unchecked“We validated the advantage of using the embeddings as exclusive input for several subsequent tasks: (1) a per-residue (per-token) prediction of protein secondary structure (3-state accuracy Q3=81%-87%); (2) per-protein (pooling) predictions of protein sub-ce…
    3. Unchecked“For secondary structure, the most informative embeddings (ProtT5) for the first time outperformed the state-of-the-art without multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) or evolutionary information thereby bypassing expensive database searches.”

12. Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies

    HH-suite3 for fast remote homology detection and deep protein annotation

    Steinegger, Meier, Mirdita, Vöhringer, Haunsberger and Söding · BMC Bioinformatics · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“These accelerated the search methods HHsearch by a factor 4 and HHblits by a factor 2 over the previous version 2.0.16.”

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

    Unified rational protein engineering with sequence-based deep representation learning

    Alley, Khimulya, Biswas, AlQuraishi and Church · Nature Methods · 2019

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    1. Unchecked“We show that the simplest models built on top of this unified representation (UniRep) are broadly applicable and generalize to unseen regions of sequence space.”
    2. Unchecked“Our data-driven approach predicts the stability of natural and de novo designed proteins, and the quantitative function of molecularly diverse mutants, competitively with the state-of-the-art methods.”
    3. Unchecked“UniRep further enables two orders of magnitude efficiency improvement in a protein engineering task.”

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

    lDDT: a local superposition-free score for comparing protein structures and models using distance difference tests

    Mariani, Biasini, Barbato and Schwede · Bioinformatics · 2013

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    1. Unchecked“We demonstrate that lDDT is well suited to assess local model quality, even in the presence of domain movements, while maintaining good correlation with global measures.”

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

    Improved prediction of protein-protein interactions using AlphaFold2

    Bryant, Pozzati and Elofsson · Nature Communications · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“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.”

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

    Simulating 500 million years of evolution with a language model

    Hayes, Rao, Akin et al. · Science · 2025

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    1. Unchecked“Among the generations that we synthesized, we found a bright fluorescent protein at a far distance (58% sequence identity) from known fluorescent proteins, which we estimate is equivalent to simulating 500 million years of evolution.”

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

    DeepLoc 2.0: multi-label subcellular localization prediction using protein language models

    Thumuluri, Armenteros, Johansen, Nielsen and Winther · Nucleic Acids Research · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“We achieve state-of-the-art performance in DeepLoc 2.0 by using a pre-trained protein language model.”
    2. Unchecked“We find that the attention output correlates well with the position of sorting signals.”

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

    A structural biology community assessment of AlphaFold2 applications

    Akdel, Pires, Porta‐Pardo et al. · Nature Structural & Molecular Biology · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“For 11 proteomes, an average of 25% additional residues can be confidently modeled when compared with homology modeling, identifying structural features rarely seen in the Protein Data Bank.”

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

    Language models enable zero-shot prediction of the effects of mutations on protein function

    Meier, Rao, Verkuil, Liu, Sercu and Rives · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) · 2021

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    1. Unchecked“We show that using only zero-shot inference, without any supervision from experimental data or additional training, protein language models capture the functional effects of sequence variation, performing at state-of-the-art.”

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

    Scaffolding protein functional sites using deep learning

    Wang, Lisanza, Juergens et al. · Science · 2022

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    1. Unchecked“The first approach, “constrained hallucination,” optimizes sequences such that their predicted structures contain the desired functional site.”