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 archive of real, experimentally measured protein shapes.
Formal description
AlphaFold was trained on these structures.
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
- PDB is related to TemplateCitation ↗
- Template is related to PDBCitation ↗
Sources & citations
Check your understanding
You need experimentally measured shapes of “The worker machine”s, rather than computer predictions. Which collection should you visit?
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