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ArticleNature biotechnology2024

Fast and accurate protein structure search with Foldseek.

Michel van Kempen, Stephanie S Kim, Charlotte Tumescheit, Milot Mirdita, Jeongjae Lee, Cameron L M Gilchrist, Johannes Söding, Martin Steinegger

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Article in Nature biotechnology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1,547 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1,547 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Michel van Kempen *Quantitative and Computational Biology Group, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2720-5714
Stephanie S Kim *School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
Charlotte TumescheitSchool of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
Milot MirditaQuantitative and Computational Biology Group, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8637-6719
Jeongjae LeeSchool of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5732-3009
Cameron L M GilchristSchool of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
Johannes SödingQuantitative and Computational Biology Group, Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences, Göttingen, Germany. soeding@mpinat.mpg.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9642-8244
Martin SteineggerSchool of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. martin.steinegger@snu.ac.kr.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8781-9753

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2019R1-A6A1-A10073437National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2019R1A6A1A10073437, 2020M3A9G7103933, 2021R1C1C102065, 2021M3A9I4021220
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

As structure prediction methods are generating millions of publicly available protein structures, searching these databases is becoming a bottleneck. Foldseek aligns the structure of a query protein against a database by describing tertiary amino acid interactions within proteins as sequences over a structural alphabet. Foldseek decreases computation times by four to five orders of magnitude with 86%, 88% and 133% of the sensitivities of Dali, TM-align and CE, respectively.

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AlgorithmsProteinsAmino AcidsDatabases, ProteinSoftwareAmino AcidsProteins

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PMID37156916
PMCPMC10869269

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