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ArticleNucleic acids research2022

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database: massively expanding the structural coverage of protein-sequence space with high-accuracy models.

Mihaly Varadi, Stephen Anyango, Mandar Deshpande, Sreenath Nair, Cindy Natassia, Galabina Yordanova, David Yuan, Oana Stroe, Gemma Wood, Agata Laydon and 17 more

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Article in Nucleic acids research, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4,424 papers.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

27 authors.

Mihaly VaradiEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-3687-0839
Stephen AnyangoEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.
Mandar DeshpandeEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-9043-7665
Sreenath NairEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.
Cindy NatassiaEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.
Galabina YordanovaEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.
David YuanEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.
Oana StroeEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.
Gemma WoodEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.
Agata LaydonDeepMind, London, UK.
Augustin ŽídekDeepMind, London, UK.
Tim GreenDeepMind, London, UK.
Kathryn TunyasuvunakoolDeepMind, London, UK.
Stig PetersenDeepMind, London, UK.
John JumperDeepMind, London, UK.
Ellen ClancyDeepMind, London, UK.
Richard GreenDeepMind, London, UK.
Ankur VoraDeepMind, London, UK.
Mira LutfiDeepMind, London, UK.
Michael FigurnovDeepMind, London, UK.
Andrew CowieDeepMind, London, UK.
Nicole HobbsDeepMind, London, UK.
Pushmeet KohliDeepMind, London, UK.
Gerard KleywegtEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.
Ewan BirneyEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-8314-8497
Demis HassabisDeepMind, London, UK.
Sameer VelankarEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Hinxton, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8439-5964

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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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Databases, ProteinProtein FoldingSoftwareAmino Acid SequenceAnimalsBacteriaDatasets as TopicDictyosteliumFungiHumansInternetModels, MolecularPlantsProtein Conformation, alpha-HelicalProtein Conformation, beta-StrandProteinsProteins

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PMID34791371
PMCPMC8728224

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