Is Protein BLAST a thing of the past?

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Ali Al-Fatlawi · German Research Centre for Artificial Intelligence

Michael Schroeder · Center for Scalable Data Analytics and Artificial Intelligence

Abstract

Will protein structure search tools like AlphaFold replace protein sequence search with BLAST? We discuss the promises, using structure search for remote homology detection, and why protein BLAST, as the leading sequence search tool, should strive to incorporate structural information

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Protein Structure and Dynamics Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies Machine Learning in Bioinformatics

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Published in: Nature Communications

Volume 14, Issue 1, pp. 8195-8195

DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-44082-5

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Is Protein BLAST a thing of the past?

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