Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome
Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool, John Jumper, Demis Hassabis · Collaboration of 33 authors from DeepMind and EMBL-EBI; senior/corresponding authors include John Jumper, Demis Hassabis, and Pushmeet Kohli. Other authors include Jonas Adler, Zachary Wu, Tim Green, Sameer Velankar, Ewan Birney.
Summary
This companion paper applied AlphaFold to predict structures for nearly the entire human proteome and 20 other key organisms, producing a large public database of predicted models. It assessed coverage and confidence across the human proteome, showing that a substantial fraction of residues could be modeled with high or very high confidence. The work created the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, greatly expanding structural coverage beyond experimentally determined structures.
Key findings
- Predicted structures were generated for 98.5% of human protein residues, roughly doubling the proportion of the proteome with confident structural annotation.
- About 58% of residues were predicted with confidence, and ~36% at very high confidence, with confidence metrics correlating with disorder and experimental coverage.
- Results were released as the openly accessible AlphaFold Protein Structure Database covering humans and 20 additional organisms.
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Cite this paper
Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool, John Jumper, & Demis Hassabis [Collaboration of 33 authors from DeepMind and EMBL-EBI; senior/corresponding authors include John Jumper, Demis Hassabis, and Pushmeet Kohli. Other authors include Jonas Adler, Zachary Wu, Tim Green, Sameer Velankar, Ewan Birney.] (2021). Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome. Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03828-1
@article{tunyasuvunakool2021highly,
author = {Kathryn Tunyasuvunakool and John Jumper and Demis Hassabis and {Collaboration of 33 authors from DeepMind and EMBL-EBI; senior/corresponding authors include John Jumper, Demis Hassabis, and Pushmeet Kohli. Other authors include Jonas Adler, Zachary Wu, Tim Green, Sameer Velankar, Ewan Birney.}},
title = {Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome},
journal = {Nature},
year = {2021},
doi = {10.1038/s41586-021-03828-1},
url = {https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-021-03828-1}
}