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Novel machine learning approaches revolutionize protein knowledge

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Bordin, Nicola, Dallago, Christian, Heinzinger, Michael, Kim, Stephanie, Littmann, Maria, Rauer, Clemens, Steinegger, Martin, Rost, Burkhard +1 more·2023·Trends in Biochemical Sciences

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Breakthrough methods in machine learning (ML), protein structure prediction, and novel ultrafast structural aligners are revolutionizing structural biology. Obtaining accurate models of proteins and annotating their functions on a large scale is no longer limited by time and resources. The most recent method to be top ranked by the Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) assessment, AlphaFold 2 (AF2), is capable of building structural models with an accuracy comparable to that of experimental structures. Annotations of 3D models are keeping pace with the deposition of the structures due to advancements in protein language models (pLMs) and structural aligners that help validate these transferred annotations. In this review we describe how recent developments in ML for protein science are making large-scale structural bioinformatics available to the general scientific community.

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Authors
Bordin, N., Dallago, C., Heinzinger, M., Kim, S., Littmann, M., Rauer, C., Steinegger, M., Rost, B., & Orengo, C.
Affiliations
  • Institute of Structural and Molecular Biology (GB)
  • Technical University of Munich (DE)
  • Seoul National University (KR)
Corresponding author
Orengo, Christine
Venue
Trends in Biochemical Sciences
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2023-04
Volume
48
Issue
4
Pages
345-359
ISSN
0968-0004 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4311200057
Cited by
72
References
131
Citations by year
2026: 17 · 2025: 12 · 2024: 25 · 2023: 18
FWCI
1.43
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Trends in Biochemical Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Biblos-e Archivo (Universidad Autónoma de Madrid) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
  • UCL Discovery (University College London) (submittedVersion)
  • Hispana (submittedVersion)
  • Seoul National University Open Repository (Seoul National University) (submittedVersion)
  • Padua Research Archive (University of Padova) (submittedVersion, cc-by)
Funders
  • Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung
  • Wellcome Trust (221327/Z/20/Z, BB/T002735/1)
  • National Research Foundation (2021-R1C1-C102065)
  • Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG-GZ: RO1320/4-1, RO1320/4‐1)
  • Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (01IS17049)
  • Seoul National University
  • National Research Foundation of Korea (2021-R1C1-C102065, 2021-M3A9-I4021220, 2020M3‐A9G7‐103933, 2019R1-A6A1-A10073437, 2020M3-A9G7-103933, 2021-R1C1-C102065, and 2021-M3A9-I4021220)
  • Samsung
  • Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BB/T002735/1)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Enzyme Structure and Function
Keywords
protein structure prediction, AlphaFold2, protein language models, structural alignment, protein annotation, structural bioinformatics
MeSH terms
Machine Learning, Protein Conformation, Proteins, Computational Biology

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