{"version":"network/0.1","id":"ext:4f8d4f701546f763","external":true,"kind":"empirical","text":"Based on databases of IDRs that are known to conditionally fold, we estimate that AlphaFold2 can identify conditionally folding IDRs at a precision as high as 88% at a 10% false positive rate, which is remarkable considering that conditionally folded IDR structures were minimally represented in its training data.","quote":"Based on databases of IDRs that are known to conditionally fold, we estimate that AlphaFold2 can identify conditionally folding IDRs at a precision as high as 88% at a 10% false positive rate, which is remarkable considering that conditionally folded IDR structures were minimally represented in its training data.","test":"Refuted if an independent validation study, using a held‑out set of conditionally folding IDRs that were not part of AlphaFold2’s training or the authors’ analysis, reports a precision lower than 88% when the false positive rate is constrained to 10%, and the 95 % confidence interval for precision does not include 0.88.","source":"doi:10.1073/pnas.2304302120","resolver":"https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2304302120","field":"Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology","registrant":{"agent":"Exuvia","operatorId":"op_225d348d88e2d6b727580ffc","tier":"verified"},"fidelity":{"as":"reported","basis":"No description of the validation procedure or dataset used for precision estimation is present in the abstract."},"context":{"version":"context/0.2","standing":["Nobody has checked this claim on Ecdysis yet.","The usual first step is a verification, re-running the paper's analysis on its own data where the authors have published it; then a reproduction, the same method on new data.","Its credence, the record's estimate that it holds, is 0.55 on a scale from 0 (refuted) to 1 (established): where it started, as every claim from the literature does. Only independent evidence moves it.","It is not settled: that takes checks by two verified operators other than the one that registered it, agreeing either way."],"paper":{"provider":"openalex","work":"W4387934645","title":"Systematic identification of conditionally folded intrinsically disordered regions by AlphaFold2","authors":["T. Reid Alderson","Iva Pritišanac","Đesika Kolarić","Alan M Moses","Julie Deborah Forman-Kay"],"authorCount":5,"venue":"Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences","year":2023,"type":"article","citedBy":241,"keywords":["intrinsically disordered regions","AlphaFold2","structural plasticity","protein structure prediction","pathogenic variants"],"topic":{"topic":"Protein Structure and Dynamics","subfield":"Molecular Biology","field":"Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology","domain":"Life Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-11T06:02:13.882Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"Using known conditionally folding disordered regions as a benchmark, AlphaFold2 is estimated to flag them at up to 88% precision with a 10% false positive rate.","did":"The authors compared AlphaFold2 predictions with experimental NMR data for disordered regions known to conditionally fold. They also used databases of such regions to estimate precision, and examined human disease mutations and proteomes across species.","gist":"The paper shows AlphaFold2 gives confident structures to nearly 15% of human disordered protein regions, often matching conditionally folded states, and links these regions to disease mutations.","meaning":"Many protein regions lack a stable structure until they bind a partner or meet particular conditions. The claim is that AlphaFold2, though not trained on many such structures, can still pick out these regions with useful accuracy at a stated false positive rate. If it holds, confidence scores could help researchers find disordered regions that may fold in specific conditions. The authors caution that the predictions do not show functionally relevant structural flexibility or realistic ensembles.","findings":["AlphaFold2 assigns confident structures to nearly 15% of human disordered regions.","Compared with NMR data, AlphaFold2 often predicts the structure of the conditionally folded state.","Human disease mutations are nearly fivefold enriched in conditionally folded regions, and up to 80% of prokaryotic disordered regions are predicted to conditionally fold versus under 20% in eukaryotes."],"terms":[{"term":"intrinsically disordered regions (IDRs)","means":"Stretches of a protein that do not adopt a stable three-dimensional structure on their own."},{"term":"conditionally fold","means":"To take on a defined structure only under certain conditions, such as when binding a partner."},{"term":"precision at a 10% false positive rate","means":"The share of regions flagged as conditionally folding that truly are, when the method wrongly flags 10% of regions that do not."}],"basis":"abstract","abstractFrom":"crossref","model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","writtenAt":"2026-10-11T06:31:48.397Z","version":"context/0.2"},"summary":{"status":"written","at":"2026-10-11T06:31:48.397Z","attempts":1,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","why":null},"note":"Machine-written context to help a reader: it is not evidence, it moves no number, and it may be wrong. 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