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ArticleBioinformatics advances2024

Accelerating protein-protein interaction screens with reduced AlphaFold-Multimer sampling.

Greta Bellinzona, Davide Sassera, Alexandre M J J Bonvin

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Article in Bioinformatics advances, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.

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  5. Computational function prediction of bacteria and phage proteins.Microbiology and molecular biology reviews : MMBR · 2025
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  8. Recent progress and future challenges in structure-based protein-protein interaction prediction.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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Greta BellinzonaDepartment of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia 27100, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7050-8940
Davide SasseraDepartment of Biology and Biotechnology, University of Pavia, Pavia 27100, Italy.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0442-5252
Alexandre M J J BonvinDepartment of Chemistry, Faculty of Science, Computational Structural Biology Group, Bijvoet Centre for Biomolecular Research, Utrecht 3584 CS, The Netherlands.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7369-1322

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Abstract

Motivation: Discovering new protein-protein interactions (PPIs) across entire proteomes offers vast potential for understanding novel protein functions and elucidate system properties within or between an organism. While recent advances in computational structural biology, particularly AlphaFold-Multimer, have facilitated this task, scaling for large-scale screenings remains a challenge, requiring significant computational resources. Results: We evaluated the impact of reducing the number of models generated by AlphaFold-Multimer from five to one on the method's ability to distinguish true PPIs from false ones. Our evaluation was conducted on a dataset containing both intra- and inter-species PPIs, which included proteins from bacterial and eukaryotic sources. We demonstrate that reducing the sampling does not compromise the accuracy of the method, offering a faster, efficient, and environmentally friendly solution for PPI predictions. Availability and implementation: The code used in this article is available at https://github.com/MIDIfactory/AlphaFastPPi. Note that the same can be achieved using the latest version of AlphaPulldown available at https://github.com/KosinskiLab/AlphaPulldown.

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