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Evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic level protein structure with a language model
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Artificial intelligence has the potential to open insight into the structure of proteins at the scale of evolution. It has only recently been possible to extend protein structure prediction to two hundred million cataloged proteins. Characterizing the structures of the exponentially growing billions of protein sequences revealed by large scale gene sequencing experiments would necessitate a break-through in the speed of folding. Here we show that direct inference of structure from primary sequence using a large language model enables an order of magnitude speed-up in high resolution structure prediction. Leveraging the insight that language models learn evolutionary patterns across millions of sequences, we train models up to 15B parameters, the largest language model of proteins to date. As the language models are scaled they learn information that enables prediction of the three-dimensional structure of a protein at the resolution of individual atoms. This results in prediction that is up to 60x faster than state-of-the-art while maintaining resolution and accuracy. Building on this, we present the ESM Metage-nomic Atlas. This is the first large-scale structural characterization of metagenomic proteins, with more than 617 million structures. The atlas reveals more than 225 million high confidence predictions, including millions whose structures are novel in comparison with experimentally determined structures, giving an unprecedented view into the vast breadth and diversity of the structures of some of the least understood proteins on earth.
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The paper introduces ESM-2 protein language models up to 15B parameters and ESMFold, an end-to-end single-sequence structure predictor that reaches atomic-resolution accuracy while being up to 60x faster than state-of-the-art pipelines. It uses ESMFold to build the ESM Metagenomic Atlas, folding over 617 million MGnify90 sequences and identifying more than 225 million high-confidence structures, many novel relative to known sequences and structures.
Key findings
- Scaling ESM-2 from 8M to 15B parameters improves language modeling and structural information: validation perplexity falls from 10.45 to 6.37, unsupervised long-range contact precision (LR P@L) rises from 0.16 to 0.54, and structure-module-only LDDT rises from 0.48 to 0.72. The 15B model reaches TM-score 0.71 on CAMEO and 0.54 on CASP14, 0.064 higher than the 150M ESM-2 model on both.
- ESMFold achieves average TM-score 0.83 on CAMEO and 0.68 on CASP14, compared with AlphaFold2 at 0.88 and 0.85 and RosettaFold at 0.82 on CAMEO. On a single NVIDIA V100 GPU, ESMFold predicts a 384-residue protein in 14.2 seconds, 6x faster than a single AlphaFold2 model, with up to ~60x speedup on shorter sequences; MSA search alone can take over 10 minutes.
- The ESM Metagenomic Atlas folds over 617 million MGnify90 sequences in 2 weeks on ~2,000 GPUs, yielding ~365 million good-confidence predictions (mean pLDDT > 0.5 and pTM > 0.5) and ~225 million high-confidence predictions (mean pLDDT > 0.7 and pTM > 0.7). In a 1-million high-confidence sample, 76.8% have <90% sequence identity to UniRef90, 12.6% have no PDB structure with TM-score > 0.5, and 10.4% have both low structural similarity (TM-score ≤ 0.5) and no close sequence homolog (<30% identity).
- Confidence is well calibrated: for high-confidence predictions (pLDDT > 0.7), CAMEO accuracy is comparable to AlphaFold2 (ESMFold LDDT = 0.83, AlphaFold2 LDDT = 0.85); for very high confidence (pLDDT > 0.9), median all-atom RMSD95 is 1.42 Å and backbone RMSD95 is 0.94 Å.
Methods
- ESM-2 is a BERT-style transformer masked language model trained on UniRef50/UniRef90 sequences, scaled from 8M to 15B parameters, with models trained for up to 500K updates (15B for 270K updates) and evaluated on held-out UniRef50 clusters.
- ESMFold adds a 48-block folding head to a frozen 3B-parameter ESM-2, trained on ~25K PDB clusters covering ~325K experimentally determined chains plus ~12M AlphaFold2-predicted structures; evaluation uses temporally held-out CAMEO (194 proteins) and CASP14 (51 targets) test sets.
- Metagenomic analysis folded MGnify90 sequences of length 20–1024, covering 99% of the database, and used Foldseek, MMseqs2, blastp, and UMAP for structural and sequence similarity analyses.
Limitations
- The paper states that ESMFold was not trained on protein complexes, so complex prediction is out of distribution; it also notes that ablating MSAs for AlphaFold and RosettaFold is an artificial single-sequence setting because those models were not explicitly trained for single sequences.
- The paper states that calibration becomes critical as structure prediction scales, and that current models are far from the limit of scale in parameters, sequence data, and compute.
- Evident from the text: this is a bioRxiv preprint not certified by peer review; ESMFold is less accurate than AlphaFold2 overall on CAMEO (0.83 vs 0.88 TM-score) and CASP14 (0.68 vs 0.85), with a larger gap on hard CAMEO targets (0.45 vs 0.62).
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“the vast majority (76.8%) of high confidence predictions being separate from UniRef90 (32) by at least 90% sequence identity”
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“Very high confidence predictions in the metagenomic atlas are expected to often be reliable at a resolution sufficient for insight similar to experimentally determined structures, such as into the biochemistry of active sites (61);”
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The High-resolution models section says predicted models can meet demanding structural requirements and sometimes support ligand-binding studies; the Medium-resolution models section says predictions can help locate active sites. The paper does not assess predictions in the metagenomic atlas or establish that its very high-confidence predictions are often reliable enough to provide experimentally comparable insight into active-site biochemistry. Page numbers are unavailable in our copy. (LLM, conf=0.85)
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“We fold over 617 million sequences from the MGnify90 database (25).”
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The 'UPDATES TO THE MGnify PROTEIN DATABASE' section describes MGnify protein sequences clustered at 90% identity, supporting the identification of the database. It reports over 1.1 billion sequences in the full database, but does not give a count of 617 million for the 90%-clustered set. The citing authors' folding of those sequences is their own work, not a finding attributed to this source. (LLM, conf=0.84)
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“In a comparison with AlphaFold-Multimer (45) on a dataset of 2,978 recent multimeric complexes deposited in the PDB, ESMFold achieves the same qualitative DockQ (39) categorization for 53.2% of chain pairs, despite not being trained on protein complexes (Fig. S6).”
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“Here we show that direct inference of structure from primary sequence using a large language model enables an order of magnitude speed-up in high resolution structure prediction.”
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“We discover that an atomic resolution structure prediction can be projected from the representations of the ESM-2 language models.”
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“The atlas reveals more than 225 million high confidence predictions”
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“This is the first large-scale structural characterization of metagenomic proteins, with more than 617 million structures.”
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“We present the first evolutionary scale structural characterization of a metagenomic resource, folding practically all sequences in MGnify90 (25), over 617M proteins.”
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“MGnify sequence MGYP000936678158 has no significant sequence matches to any entry in UniRef90, nor any significant matches via a jackhmmer (47) reference proteome search, but has a predicted structure conserved across many nucleases (PDB 5YET B, TM-score 0.68; PDB 3HR4 A, TM-score 0.67)”
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“During method development (e.g. hyperparameter selection), we used a temporally held out validation set obtained from the Continuous Automated Model EvaluatiOn (CAMEO) server (36) by filtering from August 2021 to January 2022.”
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“The resulting ESM-2 model family significantly outperforms previously state-of-the-art ESM-1b (a ∼ 650 million parameter model) at a comparable number of parameters, and on structure prediction benchmarks it also outperforms other recent protein language models (Table S3).”
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“Attention patterns develop in ESM-2 that correspond to tertiary structure (Fig. 1A), and scaling leads to large improvements in the understanding of structure (Fig. 1B).”
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“and ∼ 225 million predictions with high confidence (mean pLDDT > 0 . 7 and pTM > 0 . 7 ) corresponding to ∼ 36% of total structures folded (Fig. 3).”
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“The first test is from CAMEO, consisting of all 194 test proteins from April 01, 2022 through June 25, 2022.”
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“On the CAMEO test set, language model perplexity has a Pearson correlation of -0.55 with the TM-score between the predicted and experimental structures; on CASP14, the correlation is -0.67 (Fig. 2B).”
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“ESMFold achieves competitive accuracy with RosettaFold on CAMEO, which averages a TM-score of 0.82.”
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“MGnify sequence MGYP004000959047 has no significant UniRef90 or jackhmmer reference proteome matches but its predicted structure has high similarity to experimental structures of lipid binding domains (PDB 6BYM A, TMscore 0.80; PDB 5YQP B, TM-score 0.78)”
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“Using the search protocols released with AlphaFold2, including MSAs and templates, AlphaFold2 achieves 0.88 and 0.85 on CAMEO and CASP14 respectively.”
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“For Hsu et al. (62) we generated a set of 13,477,259 structure predictions with AlphaFold2 using MSAs generated via the process in Rao et al. (40).”
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“The 15 billion parameter model reaches a TM-score of 0.71 on the CAMEO test set and 0.54 on the CASP14 test set, 0.064 points higher than the 150 million parameter ESM-2 model on both (Fig. 1E).”
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“This characterization reveals the structures of hundreds of millions proteins that have been previously unknown, millions of which are novel in comparison to experimentally determined structures.”
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“ESMFold achieves an average TM-score of 0.83 on CAMEO and 0.68 on CASP14.”
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“No filtering is performed on these test sets, as ESMFold is able to make predictions on all sequences, including the length-2166 target T1044.”
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“On a single NVIDIA V100 GPU, ESMFold makes a prediction on a protein with 384 residues in 14.2 seconds, 6x faster than a single AlphaFold2 model.”
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“Across all models (Table S3) there is a correlation of -0.99 between validation perplexity and CASP14 TM-score, and -1.00 between validation perplexity and CAMEO TM-score”
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“On the CAMEO test set, ESMFold predictions have a median all-atom RMSD 95 (root-mean-squared deviation at 95% residue coverage) of 1.91 ˚ A and backbone RMSD 95 of 1.33 ˚ A.”
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“For RoseTTAfold, the speed of the SE(3) Transformer dominates, especially at low sequence lengths.”
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“These steps result in a total of 2978 clusters.”
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“At low sequence lengths, ESMFold is dominated by language model performance, while the O ( N 3 ) computation of pairwise representations takes over at high sequence lengths.”
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“Differentiation is greater in the ªmediumº and ªhardº classes, which have lower MSA depth and are better predicted by AlphaFold2.”
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“We see an over 60x speed advantage for shorter protein sequences, and a reasonable speed advantage for longer protein sequences.”
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“which we were able to do in 2 weeks time.”
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“Unsupervised contact prediction results show that both RoPE and newer data significantly improve the results.”
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“We estimate that on a homogeneous network GPU cluster of V100s, the entire 620 million sequences would take approximately 28,000 GPU days to fold”
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“Language model perplexity and ESMFold pLDDT are both well correlated with actual structure prediction accuracy on CASP14 and CAMEO.”
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“After 270K updates the 8M parameter model has a perplexity of 10.45, and the 15B model reaches a perplexity of 6.37.”
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“After filtering, there are 104 sequences with MSA depth ≤ 100 , 70 sequences with MSA depth ≤ 10 , and 22 sequences with MSA depth = 1.”
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“analyzed the high-confidence subset with mean pLDDT greater than 0.9, corresponding to ∼ 59K structures.”
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“This results in a total of 3505 unique chain pairs.”
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“We do observe a slight regression when sampling from UniRef90 clusters”
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“These capabilities develop as a function of scale, with greater capabilities emerging as computation, data, and number of parameters increase.”
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“Within a protein family, structure and function can be inferred from the patterns in sequences (4, 5).”
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“This means that improvement on sequences with high evolutionary depth saturates at lower model scales, and improvement on sequences with low evolutionary depth continues as models increase in size.”
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“language models of text, despite the simplicity of their training objectives, such as filling in missing words or predicting the next word, are shown to develop emergent capabilities that are connected to the underlying meaning of the text.”
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“As the language models are scaled they learn information that enables prediction of the three-dimensional structure of a protein at the resolution of individual atoms.”
- Also stated in: § Evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic level protein structure with a language model · p. 2 · plain
“We discover that atomic resolution structure prediction emerges and continues to improve in language models over the four orders of magnitude in parameter scale.”
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“No filtering is performed on these test sets, as ESMFold is able to make predictions on all sequences, including the length-2166 target T1044.”
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“All train sequences which match a validation sequence with 50% sequence identity under this search are removed from the train set.”
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“We report results by testing 3D structure prediction models on two test sets, both chosen to be temporally held out from our supervised training set.”
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“All compared sequences are temporally held out from the training set.”
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“however we believe this difference is small and the UniRef90 cluster sampling is likely to help for the larger models.”
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“The number of SE(3) max-iterations are artificially limited to 20 (default 200) and no MSAs are used as input for these measurements.”
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“Additionally, this only measures the network forward time, and does not include the time taken to compute sidechains with PyRosetta or search for MSAs.”
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“Since BERT style models have been shown to be amenable to very large batch sizes (67), we increased our effective batch size to 2M tokens.”
What the sources say
- Not matchedcites [67] Yang You , Jing Li , Sashank Reddi , Jonathan Hseu , Sanjiv Kumar , Srinadh Bhojanapalli , Xiaodan Song , James Demmel , Kurt Keutzer , and Cho-Jui Hsieh. Large Batch Optimization for Deep Learning: Training BERT in 76 Minutes. page 38, 2020.
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“even though ESMFold is not trained on protein complexes.”
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AlphaFold2 predictions provide a valid reference for assessing the accuracy of ESMFold predictions on metagenomic proteins.
“We also assess calibration against AlphaFold predictions on metagenomic proteins.”
“On a random subset of ∼ 4K metagenomic sequences, there is a high correlation (Pearson r = 0.79) between ESMFold pLDDT and the LDDT to AlphaFold2 predictions (Fig. 3A).”
The paper relies on this without support.
The MGnify90 database is representative of metagenomic protein diversity.
“We fold over 617 million sequences from the MGnify90 database (25).”
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The PDB database provides a comprehensive reference for experimentally determined protein structures.
“no structure is found with TM-score over 0.5 in the PDB database”
“no experimentally determined structure with a similar fold could be identified”
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Absolute positional encoding methods don't extrapolate well beyond the context window they are trained on.
“However, absolute positional encoding methods don't extrapolate well beyond the context window they are trained on.”
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Orphan proteins are very challenging for current structure prediction models due to a lack of evolutionary information.
“Due to a lack of evolutionary information, these sequences can be very challenging for current structure prediction models.”
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“Evo also reaches competitive performance with leading protein-specific language models (41, 46–48) (Fig. 2B).”
From Sequence modeling and design from molecular to genome scale with Evo (2024) · cites this paper as [47]
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“Such modeling paradigms have been used successfully in the biomolecular realm, for example, to predict three-dimensional (3D) molecular structures from sequences32–34 and interactions between different molecular components.35–38”
From How to build the virtual cell with artificial intelligence: Priorities and opportunities (2024) · cites this paper as [34]
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“are the best and most accurate answer to the structure prediction problem to date”
From The power and pitfalls of AlphaFold2 for structure prediction beyond rigid globular proteins (2024) · cites this paper as [19]
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“The unprecedented accuracy of AlphaFold2,127 RosettaFold,128 and others129,130 offers, at least in principle, the opportunity to virtually screen any protein of interest with the structure-based approach, irrespective of its a priori ligandability (after AlphaFold2, the structural coverage of the human proteome increased from 48% to 76% of the total residues).131”
From Advancing Targeted Protein Degradation via Multiomics Profiling and Artificial Intelligence (2023) · cites this paper as [129]
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“This difficulty is amplified by the fact that the repository of publicly available structures, consisting of the combined databases of AFDB and the ESMatlas38, is approaching a billion entries.”
From Clustering predicted structures at the scale of the known protein universe (2023) · cites this paper as [38]
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“the ESM Atlas contains over 617 million metagenomic structures predicted by ESMFold4.”
From Fast and accurate protein structure search with Foldseek (2024) · cites this paper as [4]
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“Our current proof-of-concept model is considerably smaller—by 200 times—than the largest published protein language model (49).”
From DNA language models are powerful predictors of genome-wide variant effects (2023) · cites this paper as [49]
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§ 4. Evolutionary-scale structural characterization of metagenomics · p. 7
“PDB 3HR4 A, TM-score 0.67”
§ Evolutionary-scale prediction of atomic level protein structure with a language model · p. 9
“The predicted structure of MGYP000936678158 aligns to an experimental structure from a bacterial nuclease (light brown, PDB: 3H4R)”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Lin, Z., Akin, H., Rao, R., Hie, B., Zhu, Z., Lu, W., Smetanin, N., Verkuil, R., Kabeli, O., Shmueli, Y., dos Santos Costa, A., Fazel-Zarandi, M., Sercu, T., Candido, S., & Rives, A.
- Affiliations
- New York University (US)
- Stanford University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Rives, Alexander
- ORCID
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- Science
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- openRxiv
- Published
- 2022-07-21
- Volume
- 379
- Issue
- 6637
- Pages
- 1123-1130
- ISSN
- 0036-8075 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W4327550249
- Cited by
- 5,990
- References
- 71
- Citations by year
- 2026: 2468 · 2025: 1837 · 2024: 1170 · 2023: 485 · 2022: 23
- FWCI
- 460.33
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- en
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- 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
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Structural Biology › Enzyme Structure and Function
- Keywords
- protein structure prediction, large language models, protein evolution, atomic-scale structure, protein folding, structural diversity
- MeSH terms
- Machine Learning, Amino Acid Sequence, Protein Conformation, Proteins, Evolution, Molecular, Sequence Analysis, Protein
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Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
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