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AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models
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The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AlphaFold DB, https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk) is an openly accessible, extensive database of high-accuracy protein-structure predictions. Powered by AlphaFold v2.0 of DeepMind, it has enabled an unprecedented expansion of the structural coverage of the known protein-sequence space. AlphaFold DB provides programmatic access to and interactive visualization of predicted atomic coordinates, per-residue and pairwise model-confidence estimates and predicted aligned errors. 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.
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AlphaFold DB is an openly accessible database of high-accuracy protein-structure predictions generated by AlphaFold v2.0, initially containing over 360,000 predicted structures across 21 model-organism proteomes. It provides atomic coordinates, per-residue pLDDT confidence, and pairwise predicted aligned errors through FTP, API, and interactive web pages, with planned expansion to >100 million UniRef90 representative sequences.
Key findings
- The initial release contains over 360,000 predicted structures across 21 model-organism proteomes, including 23,391 human, 55,799 soybean, 43,649 Asian rice, 39,299 maize, 27,434 Arabidopsis, 24,664 zebrafish, 21,615 mouse, and 21,272 rat structures.
- Predictions include atomic coordinates, per-residue confidence pLDDT on a 0–100 scale, and pairwise Predicted Aligned Error (PAE) in Ångströms capped at 31.75 Å; pLDDT bands are ≥90 very high, 90 > pLDDT ≥ 70 confident, 70 > pLDDT ≥ 50 low, and <50 very low.
- Data are available via bulk FTP downloads, a public API keyed on UniProt accessions, and protein-specific web pages with interactive visualization using Mol*; metadata are indexed with Apache Solr.
- Planned expansions aim to exceed 1 million structures, including SwissProt and neglected-disease proteomes, followed by >100 million structures for most UniRef90 representative sequences.
Methods
- Database/resource paper describing AlphaFold DB, created by DeepMind and EMBL-EBI, using AlphaFold v2.0 predictions.
- Initial version predicted most sequences in UniProt reference proteomes for 21 organisms in the 16–2700 amino-acid length range, plus 1400-residue fragments for longer human proteins; sequences with non-standard amino acids were excluded, and multiple isoforms were not provided.
- Data archival includes PDB and mmCIF coordinate files, PAE JSON files, and metadata JSON files; access is through FTP, API, and web pages, with confidence metrics stored in B-factor fields and used for coloring in the 3D viewer.
Limitations
- Stated: the initial release excludes isoforms and sequences with unknown or non-standard amino acids, and predictions are limited to 16–2700 amino acids, with 1400-residue fragments for longer human proteins.
- Stated: PAE is asymmetric and capped at 31.75 Å; high PAE values indicate unreliable relative domain positions/orientations, and pLDDT reflects local confidence rather than global accuracy.
- Evident: this is a database/resource description, not an experimental validation study; initial coverage is limited to 21 proteomes, and the paper does not report new accuracy benchmarks beyond citing AlphaFold/CASP14 and prior human-proteome analyses.
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“The initial release of AlphaFold DB contains over 360,000 predicted structures across 21 model-organism proteomes”
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“The initial version of AlphaFold DB contains over 360 000 predicted structures, corresponding meta-information and confidence metrics.”
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“The first release of AlphaFold DB contains over 360 000 predicted structures from 21 model-organism proteomes.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > Abstract
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“The first release described here covers the human proteome and those of 20 other model organisms (Table 1).”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > INTRODUCTION
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“Model confidence can vary significantly along a chain, making it essential to analyse the confidence measures before interpreting structural features.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > IMPLEMENTATION > AlphaFold DB web pages
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“However, while the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) archives almost 220 million unique protein sequences, the Protein Data Bank (PDB) holds only just over 180 000 3D structures for over 55 000 distinct proteins, thus severely limiting the coverage of the sequence space to support biomolecular research globally (5–7).”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Bateman, 2021, UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021, Nucleic Acids Res. source
- Not checked yetcites [6] Armstrong, 2019, PDBe: improved findability of macromolecular structure data in the PDB, Nucleic Acids Res.
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“Powered by AlphaFold v2.0 of DeepMind, it has enabled an unprecedented expansion of the structural coverage of the known protein-sequence space.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > Abstract
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“The unprecedented accuracy and speed of AlphaFold allowed the creation of an extensive database of structure predictions at a large scale.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > INTRODUCTION
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“In 2020, the organizers of the CASP14 benchmark recognized AlphaFold as a solution to the protein–structure–prediction problem (12).”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [12] Pereira, 2021, High-accuracy protein structure prediction in CASP14, Proteins Struct. Funct. Bioinf. source
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“Although recent advances in the field of electron cryo-microscopy and hybrid and integrative methods (I/HM) for structure determination have accelerated the pace of structure determination, the gap between known protein sequences and experimental protein structures continues to expand (6,8).”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [6] Armstrong, 2019, PDBe: improved findability of macromolecular structure data in the PDB, Nucleic Acids Res.
- Not checked yetcites [8] de Oliveira, 2021, Cryo-EM: the resolution revolution and drug discovery, SLAS Discov. source
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“thus severely limiting the coverage of the sequence space to support biomolecular research globally (5–7).”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Bateman, 2021, UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021, Nucleic Acids Res. source
- Not checked yetcites [6] Armstrong, 2019, PDBe: improved findability of macromolecular structure data in the PDB, Nucleic Acids Res.
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“Although recent advances in the field of electron cryo-microscopy and hybrid and integrative methods (I/HM) for structure determination have accelerated the pace of structure determination, the gap between known protein sequences and experimental protein structures continues to expand (6,8).”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > INTRODUCTION
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“The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AlphaFold DB, https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk) is an openly accessible, extensive database of high-accuracy protein-structure predictions.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > Abstract
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“The predicted structures contain atomic coordinates and per-residue confidence estimates on a scale from 0 to 100, with higher scores corresponding to higher confidence.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > IMPLEMENTATION
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“Powered by AlphaFold v2.0 of DeepMind”
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“AlphaFold DB provides programmatic access to and interactive visualization of predicted atomic coordinates, per-residue and pairwise model-confidence estimates and predicted aligned errors.”
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“All the data are publicly accessible through a cloud-based infrastructure.”
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“We provide access to all entries through a public API endpoint, keyed on a UniProt accession.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > IMPLEMENTATION > Data access
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“AlphaFold DB archives and provides access to the atomic coordinates in PDB and mmCIF formats, PAEs in JSON format and corresponding metadata in JSON format.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > IMPLEMENTATION > Data archival
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“Each protein has a dedicated structure page that shows basic information (drawn from UniProt (5) and PDBe (6)) and three separate outputs of the AlphaFold model.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > IMPLEMENTATION > AlphaFold DB web pages
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Bateman, 2021, UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021, Nucleic Acids Res. source
- Not checked yetcites [6] Armstrong, 2019, PDBe: improved findability of macromolecular structure data in the PDB, Nucleic Acids Res.
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“The data files in the archive are versioned, and previous snapshots of the data will be available via FTP, but the web pages will always display the latest version.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > IMPLEMENTATION > Data archival
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“AlphaFold DB provides graphical access to and interactive visualization of all the predictions and meta-information for the broader scientific community through web pages.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > IMPLEMENTATION > Data access
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“The third output is a pairwise confidence prediction, which helps to assess the reliability of relative domain positions and orientations as well as the global topology of the protein (Figure 3).”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > IMPLEMENTATION > AlphaFold DB web pages
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“The data set contains proteins with sequence lengths of 16–2700 and excludes isoforms and sequences with unknown or non-standard amino acids.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > INTRODUCTION
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“UniProt (5), Pfam (18), InterPro (19) and PDBe-KB (7) use this API to display AlphaFold models on their web pages.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > IMPLEMENTATION > Data access
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Bateman, 2021, UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021, Nucleic Acids Res. source
- Not checked yetcites [18] Mistry, 2021, Pfam: The protein families database in 2021, Nucleic Acids Res. source
- Not checked yetcites [19] Blum, 2021, The InterPro protein families and domains database: 20 years on, Nucleic Acids Res. source
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“AlphaFold DB provides predictions through several data-access mechanisms: (i) bulk downloads via FTP; (ii) programmatic access via an application programming interface (API); (iii) download and interactive visualization of individual predictions on protein-specific web pages keyed on UniProt accessions.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > IMPLEMENTATION > Data access
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“For residues x and y in two different domains, if the PAE values (x, y) are low, AlphaFold predicts the domains to have well-defined relative positions and orientations.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > IMPLEMENTATION
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“AlphaFold is an AI system developed by DeepMind that makes state-of-the-art predictions of protein structures from their amino-acid sequences (9).”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [9] Jumper, 2021, Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold, Nature source
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“However, while the Universal Protein Resource (UniProt) archives almost 220 million unique protein sequences, the Protein Data Bank (PDB) holds only just over 180 000 3D structures for over 55 000 distinct proteins, thus severely limiting the coverage of the sequence space to support biomolecular research globally (5–7).”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > INTRODUCTION
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- Not checked yetcites [5] Bateman, 2021, UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021, Nucleic Acids Res. source
- Not checked yetcites [6] Armstrong, 2019, PDBe: improved findability of macromolecular structure data in the PDB, Nucleic Acids Res.
- Not checked yetcites [7] Varadi, 2019, PDBe-KB: a community-driven resource for structural and functional annotations, Nucleic Acids Res.
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“As a confidence metric based on lDDT, pLDDT also reflects local confidence in the structure, and should be used, for example, to assess confidence within a single domain.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > IMPLEMENTATION
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- Not checked yetcites [14] Mariani, 2013, lDDT: a local superposition-free score for comparing protein structures and models using distance difference tests, Bioinformatics source
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“It was recently described that very low confidence pLDDT scores correlate with high propensities for intrinsic disorder (17).”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > IMPLEMENTATION
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- Not checked yetcites [17] Akdel, 2021, A structural biology community assessment of AlphaFold 2 applications Biophysics
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“If the PAE values are high, then the relative position and orientation of the two domains are unreliable, and users should not attach biological or structural relevance to these.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > IMPLEMENTATION
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“However, figuring out the exact structure of a protein remains an expensive and often time-consuming process.”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK
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“The lower confidence bands appear to correlate well with backbone flexibility and intrinsic disorder (13) (Figure 2).”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > IMPLEMENTATION > AlphaFold DB web pages
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- Not checked yetcites [13] Tunyasuvunakool, 2021, Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome, Nature source
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“Since the mid-1950s, the scientific community has been using ever-more advanced experimental methods to determine over 180 000 structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complexes in atomic detail, and archive them in the PDB, the single worldwide archive of experimental macromolecular structure data managed by the wwPDB consortium (21).”
§ AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models > CONCLUSION AND OUTLOOK
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- Not checked yetcites [21] wwPDB consortium, 2018, Protein Data Bank: the single global archive for 3D macromolecular structure data, Nucleic Acids Res. source
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“The new CC+ database includes both experimentally derived CCs from the RCSB PDB (Bittrich et al., 2022) and predicted AlphaFold2 models for 48 proteomes (https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/; Varadi et al., 2022).”
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“we posit that AlphaFold (Jumper et al., 2021;Varadi et al., 2021) is a Level 5 Narrow AI (“Superhuman Narrow AI”) since it performs a single task (predicting a protein's 3D structure from an amino acid sequence) above the level of the world's top scientists.”
From Levels of AGI for Operationalizing Progress on the Path to AGI (2023) · cites this paper as Varadi et al., 2021
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“houses over 200 million pre-run AF2 predictions”
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“AF2 also generates a Predicted Aligned Error (PAE) matrix, which evaluates the relative orientation and position of different parts (i.e., domains) of the model6”
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“Likewise, AlphaFold2 provides a per-residue confidence measure that allows researchers to judge the quality of the predicted structure.281”
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“over 214 million predicted structures are available in the AlphaFold database2”
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“The European Bioinformatics Institute already holds over 214 million structures predicted by AlphaFold2 (ref. 3)”
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Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold
Jumper, J., Evans, R., Pritzel, A., Green, T., Figurnov, M., Ronneberger, O., Tunyasuvunakool, K., Bates, R., Žídek, A., Potapenko, A., et al. (2021) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03819-2 · Cited by 43,764
Self-citationPfam: The protein families database in 2021
Mistry, J., Chuguransky, S., Williams, L., Qureshi, M., Salazar, G. A., Sonnhammer, E. L. L., Tosatto, S. C. E., Paladin, L., Raj, S., Richardson, L. J., et al. (2021) · Nucleic Acids Research · doi:10.1093/nar/gkaa913 · Cited by 7,452
UniProt: the universal protein knowledgebase in 2021
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Accurate prediction of protein structures and interactions using a 3-track network
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Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome
Tunyasuvunakool, K., Adler, J., Wu, Z., Green, T., Zielinski, M., Žídek, A., Bridgland, A., Cowie, A., Meyer, C., Laydon, A., et al. (2021) · Nature · doi:10.1038/s41586-021-03828-1 · Cited by 3,025 · cited 4×
“The methodology of AlphaFold and insights gained from the predictions for the complete human proteome have been described recently (9,13).”
BackgroundMethodInfluentialSelf-citationThe InterPro protein families and domains database: 20 years on
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Metadata
- Authors
- Varadi, M., Anyango, S., Deshpande, M., Nair, S., Natassia, C., Yordanova, G., Yuan, D., Stroe, O., Wood, G., Laydon, A., Žídek, A., Green, T., Tunyasuvunakool, K., Petersen, S., Jumper, J., Clancy, E., Green, R., Vora, A., Lutfi, M., Figurnov, M., Cowie, A., Hobbs, N., Kohli, P., Kleywegt, G., Birney, E., Hassabis, D., & Velankar, S.
- Affiliations
- European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK
- European Bioinformatics Institute (GB)
- Google DeepMind (United Kingdom) (GB)
- Corresponding author
- Hassabis, Demis
- Velankar, Sameer
- ORCID
- Varadi, Mihaly
- Anyango, Stephen
- Deshpande, Mandar
- Nair, Sreenath
- Yordanova, Galabina
- Yuan, David
- Stroe, Oana
- Laydon, Agata
- Žídek, Augustin
- Green, Tim
- Tunyasuvunakool, Kathryn
- Petersen, Stig
- Jumper, John
- Clancy, Ellen
- Green, Richard
- Vora, Ankur
- Figurnov, Michael
- Kohli, Pushmeet
- Kleywegt, Gerard
- Birney, Ewan
- Hassabis, Demis
- Velankar, Sameer
- Venue
- Nucleic Acids Research
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press (OUP)
- Published
- 2021-11-17
- Volume
- 50
- Issue
- D1
- Pages
- D439-D444
- ISSN
- 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
- 1362-4962
- PMC
- PMC8728224
- OpenAlex
- W3211795435
- Semantic Scholar
- 86c048c4d91066610beba9099b7d23bdae29caab
- Cited by
- 7,850
- References
- 24
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1070 · 2025: 1540 · 2024: 2150 · 2023: 2142 · 2022: 925 · 2021: 13
- FWCI
- 416.00
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
- doi.org
- Licence
- Locations
- Nucleic Acids Research (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- DeepMind
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Structural Biology › Enzyme Structure and Function
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Machine Learning in Bioinformatics
- Keywords
- AlphaFold, protein structure prediction, protein sequence space, structural coverage, model confidence, atomic coordinates, proteome, DeepMind
- MeSH terms
- Protein Conformation, alpha-Helical, Protein Conformation, beta-Strand, Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Bacteria, Dictyostelium, Fungi, Humans, Models, Molecular, Plants, Proteins, Software, Trypanosoma cruzi, Protein Folding, Internet, Databases, Protein, Datasets as Topic
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