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ArticleActa crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications2023

AlphaFold and the future of structural biology.

Randy J Read, Edward N Baker, Charles S Bond, Elspeth F Garman, Mark J van Raaij

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Article in Acta crystallographica. Section F, Structural biology communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Randy J ReadCambridge Institute for Medical Research, University of Cambridge, The Keith Peters Building, Hills Road, Cambridge CB2 0XY, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8273-0047
Edward N BakerSchool of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand.
Charles S BondSchool of Molecular Sciences, University of Western Australia, 35 Stirling Highway, Crawley, WA 6009, Australia.ORCID 0000-0002-9584-6783
Elspeth F GarmanDepartment of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, Dorothy Crowfoot Hodgkin Building, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, United Kingdom.ORCID 0000-0001-8329-5665
Mark J van RaaijDepartamento de Estructura de Macromoleculas, Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, 28049 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-4781-1375

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

This editorial acknowledges the transformative impact of new machine-learning methods, such as the use of AlphaFold, but also makes the case for the continuing need for experimental structural biology.

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BiologyCryoelectron MicroscopyCrystallography, X-RayProtein ConformationAlphaFoldcryo-EMcrystallographyprotein structure prediction

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PMID37358500
PMCPMC10327576

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