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ReviewNature protocols2025

Easy and accurate protein structure prediction using ColabFold.

Gyuri Kim, Sewon Lee, Eli Levy Karin, Hyunbin Kim, Yoshitaka Moriwaki, Sergey Ovchinnikov, Martin Steinegger, Milot Mirdita

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Review in Nature protocols, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 99 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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99 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors.

Gyuri Kim *Interdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.
Sewon Lee *School of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.ORCID 0009-0002-7859-4892
Eli Levy Karin *ELKMO, Copenhagen, Denmark.
Hyunbin KimInterdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea.ORCID 0000-0003-4662-3943
Yoshitaka MoriwakiDepartment of Biotechnology, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan.ORCID 0000-0003-0448-9790
Sergey OvchinnikovMassachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA. so3@mit.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-2774-2744
Martin SteineggerInterdisciplinary Program in Bioinformatics, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. martin.steinegger@snu.ac.kr.ORCID 0000-0001-8781-9753
Milot MirditaSchool of Biological Sciences, Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea. mmirdit@snu.ac.kr.ORCID 0000-0001-8637-6719

Funding

Exploring the unknown protein universe using evolutionary informationDP5OD026389 · OD · HARVARD UNIVERSITY · PI OVCHINNIKOV, SERGEY L. · 2018 to 2022
$2.0M
Japan Agency for Medical Research and Development (AMED) JP23ama121027National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2020M3-A9G7-103933National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2021-M3A9-I4021220National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2021-R1C1-C102065National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) RS-2023-00250470National Science Foundation (NSF) MCB2032259NIH HHS DP5 OD026389Seoul National University AI-Bio ResearchSeoul National University Creative-Pioneering Researchers ProgramU.S. Department of Health & Human Services | National Institutes of Health (NIH) DP5OD026389
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Since its public release in 2021, AlphaFold2 (AF2) has made investigating biological questions, by using predicted protein structures of single monomers or full complexes, a common practice. ColabFold-AF2 is an open-source Jupyter Notebook inside Google Colaboratory and a command-line tool that makes it easy to use AF2 while exposing its advanced options. ColabFold-AF2 shortens turnaround times of experiments because of its optimized usage of AF2's models. In this protocol, we guide the reader through ColabFold best practices by using three scenarios: (i) monomer prediction, (ii) complex prediction and (iii) conformation sampling. The first two scenarios cover classic static structure prediction and are demonstrated on the human glycosylphosphatidylinositol transamidase protein. The third scenario demonstrates an alternative use case of the AF2 models by predicting two conformations of the human alanine serine transporter 2. Users can run the protocol without computational expertise via Google Colaboratory or in a command-line environment for advanced users. Using Google Colaboratory, it takes <2 h to run each procedure. The data and code for this protocol are available at https://protocol.colabfold.com .

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