Connected concepts · Student learning
Foldwords
An evolving ontology and student guide to AlphaFold.
34 terms, explained for students — from amino acids to confidence scores.
Understand AlphaFold, one concept at a time.
Example & analogy
The family album and the seating chart trade clues until they agree.
Formal description
48 stacked blocks pass information back and forth between the MSA and pair representations using attention.
Why it matters
Not yet documented for this concept.
Common misunderstanding
Not yet documented for this concept. Nicknames are memory aids, not literal definitions.
Connected concepts
- Evoformer is related to AttentionCitation ↗
- Evoformer is related to Structure moduleCitation ↗
- Multiple sequence alignment is related to EvoformerCitation ↗
- Multiple sequence alignment is used by EvoformerCitation ↗
- Pair representation is related to EvoformerCitation ↗
- Pair representation is used by EvoformerCitation ↗
- Attention is related to EvoformerCitation ↗
Sources & citations
Check your understanding
Inside AlphaFold 2, which part lets “The family photo album” and “The seating chart” exchange clues before a shape is built?
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