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AlphaFold heralds a data-driven revolution in biology and medicine

Thornton, Janet M., Laskowski, Roman A., Borkakoti, Neera·2021·Nature Medicine

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  • The AF2 insulin model deviates greatly from its experimental NMR structure, possibly because AF2 cannot orient cysteine pairs for disulfide formation.

    “the AF2 model of insulin deviates significantly from its experimental NMR structure (Fig. 2b), potentially due to the inability of AF2 to orient cysteine pairs for disulfide bond formation31”

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Authors
Thornton, J. M., Laskowski, R. A., & Borkakoti, N.
Affiliations
European Bioinformatics Institute (GB)
Corresponding author
Thornton, Janet M.
Venue
Nature Medicine
Published
2021-10
Volume
27
Issue
10
Pages
1666-1669
ISSN
  • 1078-8956 (ISSN-L)
  • 1546-170X
OpenAlex
W3207457994
Cited by
185
References
17
Citations by year
2026: 14 · 2025: 22 · 2024: 41 · 2023: 57 · 2022: 46 · 2021: 5
FWCI
11.69
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Nature Medicine (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Health Informatics › Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare and Education
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Computational Theory and Mathematics › Computational Drug Discovery Methods
Keywords
AlphaFold, protein structure prediction, artificial intelligence in biology, clinical data, human disease, data-driven medicine
MeSH terms
Artificial Intelligence, Humans, Protein Conformation, Proteins, Software, Biomedical Research

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