Fast and accurate protein structure search with Foldseek
Michel van Kempen(Max Planck Institute for Multidisciplinary Sciences), Stephanie Kim(Seoul National University), Charlotte Tumescheit(Seoul National University), Milot Mirdita(Seoul National University), Jeong-Jae Lee(Seoul National University), Cameron L. M. Gilchrist(Seoul National University), Johannes Söding(Max Planck Institute for Solar System Research), Martin Steinegger(Seoul National University)
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Abstract
As structure prediction methods are generating millions of publicly available protein structures, searching these databases is becoming a bottleneck. Foldseek aligns the structure of a query protein against a database by describing tertiary amino acid interactions within proteins as sequences over a structural alphabet. Foldseek decreases computation times by four to five orders of magnitude with 86%, 88% and 133% of the sensitivities of Dali, TM-align and CE, respectively.