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AlphaFold

AlphaFold is an artificial intelligence (AI) program developed by DeepMind, a subsidiary of Alphabet, which performs predictions of protein structure. It is designed using deep learning techniques.

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Curation policy
automatic
Data types captured
protein structure prediction
Download URL
yes
License
CC-BY 4.0
Organisms
all UniProt proteomes
Research center
EMBL-EBI

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Database of protein models generated by AlphaFold

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AlphaFold

Nodes109
Edges108
Triples227
Avg. degree1.98
Density0.018349
Components1

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AlphaFold

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related to Published works · 31
AlphaFold → Abramson, Abstract Book, Accurate, Adler, Andrew, Bioinformatics, CASP, CASP13, Critical Assessment, December, Dunger, Fourteenth Critical Assessment, Function, High Accuracy Protein Structure, Improved, January, Jumper, Lock-gray-alt-2, Lock-green, Lock-red-alt-2
has effect · 16
AlphaFold → AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, AlphaFold's, Carolyn Stein, Google DeepMind, Hill, In, Innovation Growth Lab, July, Protein Data Bank, Ryan Hill, SciBERT, Some, Stein, They, Those, Zhengyi Yu
related to Database of protein models generated by AlphaFold · 15
AlphaFold → AFDB, AlphaFold's, As, At, Database, EMBL-EBI, In July, InterPro, July, May, The, The AlphaFold Protein Structure, UniProt, UniProt-KB, UniRef90
has application · 13
AlphaFold → Berkeley, California, COVID-19, Francis Crick Institute, ORF3a, Protein Data Bank, Results, SARS-CoV-2, Specifically, The, This, United Kingdom, University
related to Clones and derivatives · 13
AlphaFold → AlphaFold3, AlQuraishi Laboratory's OpenFold-3, Apache, Boltz-1/2, ByteDance's Protenix, Clones, ESMFold, For AlphaFold, License, Meta, MIT, Still, There
related to Further reading · 13
AlphaFold → AlphaFold2, AlQuraishi, Carlos Outeiral, CASP14, December, Fount, Good Ideas, Google DeepMind's AlphaFold, It, July, Mohammed AlQuraishi, Oxford Protein Informatics Group, The AlphaFold2 Method Paper
related to Usage in scientific literature · 13
AlphaFold → AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, AlphaFold's, Attempts, Cell, In, January, May, Measures, More, Nature, PubMed Central Open Access, Science, Web
related to AlphaFold 3 (2024) · 12
AlphaFold → Alphabet, Announced, DNA, Evoformer, Google DeepMind, Isomorphic Labs, May, Pairformer, Pairformer's, RNA, The Pairformer, This
related to Public and scientific reception · 11
AlphaFold → CASP's, GDT, It, MIT Technology Review, Nature, New Scientist, News, Nobel Prize, Science, Some, Venki Ramakrishnan
related to CASP13 · 10
AlphaFold → CASP, CASP's, Critical Assessment, DeepMind's AlphaFold, GDT, In December, Overall, Protein Structure Prediction, Techniques, The

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protein proteins structures structure prediction database predictions models also research sequence gdt 2020 data accuracy used model available achieved 2024

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AlphaFoldCuration policyautomatic1.00infobox
AlphaFoldData types capturedprotein structure prediction1.00infobox
AlphaFoldDownload URLyes1.00infobox
AlphaFoldLicenseCC-BY 4.01.00infobox
AlphaFoldOrganismsall UniProt proteomes1.00infobox
AlphaFoldResearch centerEMBL-EBI1.00infobox
AlphaFoldWebyes1.00infobox
AlphaFoldWebsitehttps://www.alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/1.00infobox
AlphaFoldis aartificial intelligence0.90text
X-ray crystallographyinstance ofThe 3-D structure is necessary to understanding the biological function of the protein.Protein structures can be determined experimentally through techniques0.80text
cryo-electron microscopyinstance ofThe 3-D structure is necessary to understanding the biological function of the protein.Protein structures can be determined experimentally through techniques0.80text
nuclear magnetic resonanceinstance ofThe 3-D structure is necessary to understanding the biological function of the protein.Protein structures can be determined experimentally through techniques0.80text

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