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ArticleCommunications biology2023

Enhancing alphafold-multimer-based protein complex structure prediction with MULTICOM in CASP15.

Jian Liu, Zhiye Guo, Tianqi Wu, Raj S Roy, Farhan Quadir, Chen Chen, Jianlin Cheng

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Article in Communications biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 51 papers.

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51 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors.

Jian LiuDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NextGen Precision Health Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
Zhiye GuoDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NextGen Precision Health Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-5598-4834
Tianqi WuDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NextGen Precision Health Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
Raj S RoyDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NextGen Precision Health Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
Farhan QuadirDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NextGen Precision Health Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
Chen ChenDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NextGen Precision Health Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA.
Jianlin ChengDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, NextGen Precision Health Institute, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO, 65211, USA. chengji@missouri.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-0305-2853

Funding

Integrated Prediction of Protein Struture at 1D, 2D and 3D LevelsR01GM093123 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI CHENG, JIANLIN · 2010 to 2023
$3.8M
Deep learning methods for automated and accurate reconstruction of protein structures from cryo-EM image dataR01GM146340 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI-COLUMBIA · PI CHENG, JIANLIN · 2022 to 2025
$1.4M
NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM093123NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM146340
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

To enhance the AlphaFold-Multimer-based protein complex structure prediction, we developed a quaternary structure prediction system (MULTICOM) to improve the input fed to AlphaFold-Multimer and evaluate and refine its outputs. MULTICOM samples diverse multiple sequence alignments (MSAs) and templates for AlphaFold-Multimer to generate structural predictions by using both traditional sequence alignments and Foldseek-based structure alignments, ranks structural predictions through multiple complementary metrics, and refines the structural predictions via a Foldseek structure alignment-based refinement method. The MULTICOM system with different implementations was blindly tested in the assembly structure prediction in the 15

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BenchmarkingProteinsHumansSequence AlignmentProteins

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PMID37949999
PMCPMC10638423

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