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PLOS ONE
Volume 16, Issue 11, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0259871
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- Wellcome Trust [211075/Z/18/Z]
- Wellcome Trust [211075/Z/18/Z] Funding Source: Wellcome Trust
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AlphaFold2 and RoseTTAfold represent a significant breakthrough in predicting protein structure, providing high-quality predictions with a high-quality alignment of protein sequences. However, predictions for certain species may be less accurate than model organisms, likely due to poor sampling of these species in the protein sequence databases used for AlphaFold and ColabFold.
AlphaFold2 and RoseTTAfold represent a transformative advance for predicting protein structure. They are able to make very high-quality predictions given a high-quality alignment of the protein sequence with related proteins. These predictions are now readily available via the AlphaFold database of predicted structures and AlphaFold or RoseTTAfold Colaboratory notebooks for custom predictions. However, predictions for some species tend to be lower confidence than model organisms. Problematic species include Trypanosoma cruzi and Leishmania infantum: important unicellular eukaryotic human parasites in an early-branching eukaryotic lineage. The cause appears to be due to poor sampling of this branch of life (Discoba) in the protein sequences databases used for the AlphaFold database and ColabFold. Here, by comprehensively gathering openly available protein sequence data for Discoba species, significant improvements to AlphaFold2 protein structure prediction over the AlphaFold database and ColabFold are demonstrated. This is made available as an easy-to-use tool for the parasitology community in the form of Colaboratory notebooks for generating multiple sequence alignments and AlphaFold2 predictions of protein structure for Trypanosoma, Leishmania and related species.
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