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ReviewStructure (London, England : 1993)2013

Protein modeling: what happened to the "protein structure gap"?

Torsten Schwede

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Review in Structure (London, England : 1993), 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
52citing papers in PubMed
4.9field-weighted citation impact, top 4% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

52 citing papers in PubMed, 130 citations in OpenAlex.

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  4. AFFIPred: AlphaFold2 structure-based Functional Impact Prediction of missense variations.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2025
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  6. Reducing Immunogenicity by Design: Approaches to Minimize Immunogenicity of Monoclonal Antibodies.BioDrugs : clinical immunotherapeutics, biopharmaceuticals and gene therapy · 2024
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  9. Beyond sequence: Structure-based machine learning.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2023
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  12. Structure and dynamics of membrane protein in SARS-CoV-2.Journal of biomolecular structure & dynamics · 2022
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  19. Homology modeling in the time of collective and artificial intelligence.Computational and structural biotechnology journal · 2020
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

1 author at 1 institution in 1 country.

Torsten SchwedeBiozentrum, University of Basel, Klingelbergstrasse 50-70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland; Computational Structural Biology, SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Klingelbergstrasse 50-70, 4056 Basel, Switzerland. Electronic address: torsten.schwede@unibas.ch.
SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics · CH

Funding

The Protein Structure Inittiative KnowledgebaseU01GM093324 · NIGMS · RUTGERS, THE STATE UNIV OF N.J. · PI BERMAN, HELEN M · 2010 to 2015
$12.9M
NIGMS NIH HHS U01 GM093324
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Computational modeling of three-dimensional macromolecular structures and complexes from their sequence has been a long-standing vision in structural biology. Over the last 2 decades, a paradigm shift has occurred: starting from a large "structure knowledge gap" between the huge number of protein sequences and small number of known structures, today, some form of structural information, either experimental or template-based models, is available for the majority of amino acids encoded by common model organism genomes. With the scientific focus of interest moving toward larger macromolecular complexes and dynamic networks of interactions, the integration of computational modeling methods with low-resolution experimental techniques allows the study of large and complex molecular machines. One of the open challenges for computational modeling and prediction techniques is to convey the underlying assumptions, as well as the expected accuracy and structural variability of a specific model, which is crucial to understanding its limitations.

Indexed as

Computer SimulationModels, MolecularAmino Acid SequenceComputational BiologyDrug DiscoveryHumansProtein ConformationProtein EngineeringProteinsSequence Homology, Amino AcidStructural Homology, ProteinProteins

Identifiers

PMID24010712
PMCPMC3816506
OpenAlexW2081556853

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Registered trials

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