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ArticleNature methods2026

Clustering the protein universe of life using DIAMOND DeepClust.

Benjamin J Buchfink, Émile Barbé, Haim Ashkenazy, Klaus Reuter, John A Kennedy, Hajk-Georg Drost

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Article in Nature methods, 2026. 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

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2 · The registry

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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

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Benjamin J BuchfinkComputational Biology Group, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7658-731X
Émile BarbéComputational Biology Group, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0009-0000-7216-2031
Haim AshkenazyDepartment of Molecular Biology, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5079-4684
Klaus ReuterMax Planck Computing and Data Facility, Garching, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6869-7877
John A KennedyMax Planck Computing and Data Facility, Garching, Germany.
Hajk-Georg DrostComputational Biology Group, Max Planck Institute for Biology Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany. hdrost001@dundee.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1567-306X

Funding

Royal Society RSWF\R1\241004
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Relating billions of proteins across the tree of life remains a challenging task for comparative biosphere genomics and artificial intelligence-driven structure prediction. Here we present DIAMOND DeepClust, a cascaded, ultra-fast clustering method enabling planetary-scale organization of protein space, scaling to trillions of sequences while retaining sensitivity at low identity. Aggregating 19 billion biosphere proteins into 544 million nonsingleton clusters, we show that using our DeepClust database, available for download, can enhance structure prediction with AlphaFold2.

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Computational BiologyProteinsCluster AnalysisClustering AlgorithmsDatabases, ProteinProteins

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PMID41876643
PMCPMC13076203

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