速度提高100万倍：哈佛医学院提出可预测蛋白质结构的新型深度模型
Highlights• Neural network predicts protein structure from sequence without using co-evolution• Model replaces structure prediction pipelines with one mathematical function• Achieves state-of-the-art performance on novel protein folds• Learns a low-dimensional representation of protein sequence spaceSummaryPredicting protein structure from sequence is a central challenge of biochemistry. Co-evolution methods show promise, but an explicit sequence-to-structure map remains elusive. Advances in deep learning that replace complex, human-designed pipelines with differentiable models optimized end to end suggest the potential benefits of similarly reformulating structure prediction. Here, we introduce an end-to-end differentiable model for protein structure learning. The model couples local and global protein structure via geometric units that optimize global geometry without violating local covalent chemistry. We test our model using two challenging tasks: predicting novel folds without co-evolutionary data and predicting known folds without structural templates. In the first task, the model achieves state-of-the-art accuracy, and in the second, it comes within 1–2 Å; competing methods using co-evolution and experimental templates have been refined over many years, and it is likely that the differentiable approach has substantial room for further improvement, with applications ranging from drug discovery to protein design.Graphical Abstract