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ArticleComputational and structural biotechnology journal2023

Comparative evaluation of AlphaFold2 and disorder predictors for prediction of intrinsic disorder, disorder content and fully disordered proteins.

Bi Zhao, Sina Ghadermarzi, Lukasz Kurgan

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Article in Computational and structural biotechnology journal, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 22 papers.

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3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Bi ZhaoGenomics program, College of Public Health, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, United States.
Sina GhadermarziDepartment of Computer Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States.
Lukasz KurganDepartment of Computer Science, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, United States.
Virginia Commonwealth University · USUniversity of South Florida · US

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We expand studies of AlphaFold2 (AF2) in the context of intrinsic disorder prediction by comparing it against a broad selection of 20 accurate, popular and recently released disorder predictors. We use 25% larger benchmark dataset with 646 proteins and cover protein-level predictions of disorder content and fully disordered proteins. AF2-based disorder predictions secure a relatively high Area Under receiver operating characteristic Curve (AUC) of 0.77 and are statistically outperformed by several modern disorder predictors that secure AUCs around 0.8 with median runtime of about 20 s compared to 1200 s for AF2. Moreover, AF2 provides modestly accurate predictions of fully disordered proteins (F1 = 0.59 vs. 0.91 for the best disorder predictor) and disorder content (mean absolute error of 0.21 vs. 0.15). AF2 also generates statistically more accurate disorder predictions for about 20% of proteins that have relatively short sequences and a few disordered regions that tend to be located at the sequence termini, and which are absent of disordered protein-binding regions. Interestingly, AF2 and the most accurate disorder predictors rely on deep neural networks, suggesting that these models are useful for protein structure and disorder predictions.

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AlphaFold2Deep learningDisorder contentFully disordered proteinsIntrinsically disordered proteinIntrinsic disorderPrediction

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PMID38213902
PMCPMC10782001
OpenAlexW4379933377

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