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ReviewCurrent opinion in structural biology2021

Deep learning techniques have significantly impacted protein structure prediction and protein design.

Robin Pearce, Yang Zhang

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Review in Current opinion in structural biology, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 58 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

58 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Robin PearceDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA.
Yang ZhangDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA; Department of Biological Chemistry, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48109, USA. Electronic address: zhng@umich.edu.

Funding

Structure-based functional annotation of microbial genomesR01AI134678 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Lydia Petra Freddolino, SCOTT J. HULTGREN · 2018 to 2026
$6.5M
Advanced approaches to protein structure predictionR35GM136422 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ZHANG, YANG · 2020 to 2021
$946k
High-Performance Computing Cluster for Biomedical ResearchS10OD026825 · OD · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI ATHEY, BRIAN DAVID · 2020 to 2020
$600k
NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI134678NIGMS NIH HHS R35 GM136422NIH HHS S10 OD026825
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Protein structure prediction and design can be regarded as two inverse processes governed by the same folding principle. Although progress remained stagnant over the past two decades, the recent application of deep neural networks to spatial constraint prediction and end-to-end model training has significantly improved the accuracy of protein structure prediction, largely solving the problem at the fold level for single-domain proteins. The field of protein design has also witnessed dramatic improvement, where noticeable examples have shown that information stored in neural-network models can be used to advance functional protein design. Thus, incorporation of deep learning techniques into different steps of protein folding and design approaches represents an exciting future direction and should continue to have a transformative impact on both fields.

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Deep LearningNeural Networks, ComputerProtein FoldingProteinsProteins

Identifiers

PMID33639355
PMCPMC8222070

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