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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":"W7211958050","title":"Enhancing protein structure prediction accuracy by prioritizing important residues using protein language models","authors":["Yu Liu","Boming Kang","Peng Li","Qinghua Cui"],"authorCount":4,"venue":"Communications Biology","year":2026,"type":"article","citedBy":1,"keywords":["membrane proteins","protein structure prediction","orphan proteins","protein language models","AlphaFold2","ribosomal proteins"],"topic":{"topic":"Protein Structure and Dynamics","subfield":"Molecular Biology","field":"Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology","domain":"Life Sciences"},"readAt":"2026-10-18T09:00:54.119Z"},"explanation":{"headline":"The i-Fold model shows particular gains over AlphaFold2 on ribosomal, membrane and orphan proteins, which AlphaFold2 typically finds hard to predict.","did":"They modified the AlphaFold2 architecture to weight amino acids during training using importance scores from the ESM protein language model. 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