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ArticleNature communications2026

Atomic resolution ensembles of intrinsically disordered proteins with Alphafold.

Vincent Schnapka, Tatiana I Morozova, Samiran Sen, Massimiliano Bonomi

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Article in Nature communications, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. AF-CALVADOS: AlphaFold-guided simulations of multi-domain proteins at the proteome level.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026
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  2. AI-Physics-Experiment Trinity for Integrated Protein Dynamics Modeling.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026
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  3. Sketching microprotein portraits.Protein science : a publication of the Protein Society · 2026
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  7. Making PLUMED Fly: A Tutorial on Optimizing Performance.The journal of physical chemistry. B · 2026
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4 authors.

Vincent SchnapkaInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3528, Computational Structural Biology Unit, Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-3902-5462
Tatiana I MorozovaInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3528, Computational Structural Biology Unit, Paris, France.
Samiran SenInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3528, Computational Structural Biology Unit, Paris, France.ORCID 0000-0002-1922-7796
Massimiliano BonomiInstitut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR 3528, Computational Structural Biology Unit, Paris, France. massimiliano.bonomi@pasteur.fr.ORCID 0000-0002-7321-0004

Funding

EC | Horizon 2020 Framework Programme (EU Framework Programme for Research and Innovation H2020) 101086685 - bAIesEuropean Research Council
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Intrinsically disordered proteins are ubiquitous in biological systems and play essential roles in a wide range of biological processes and diseases. Despite recent advances in high-resolution structural biology techniques and breakthroughs in deep learning-based protein structure prediction, accurately determining structural ensembles of IDPs at atomic resolution remains a major challenge. Here, we introduce bAIes, a Bayesian framework that integrates AlphaFold2 predictions with physico-chemical molecular mechanics force fields to generate accurate atomic-resolution ensembles of IDPs. We show that bAIes produces structural ensembles that match a wide range of high- and low-resolution experimental data across diverse systems, achieving accuracy comparable to atomistic molecular dynamics simulations but at a fraction of their computational cost. Furthermore, bAIes outperforms state-of-the-art IDP models based on coarse-grained potentials as well as deep-learning approaches. Our findings pave the way for integrating structural information from modern deep-learning approaches with molecular simulations, advancing ensemble-based understanding of disordered proteins.

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Intrinsically Disordered ProteinsBayes TheoremDeep LearningMolecular Dynamics SimulationProtein ConformationProtein FoldingIntrinsically Disordered Proteins

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