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 final 3D guess you open and spin around in a viewer.
Formal description
Usually delivered as a PDB or mmCIF file you can open in a viewer like Mol* or PyMOL.
Why it matters
Provides a structure hypothesis to inspect alongside confidence and experimental evidence.
Common misunderstanding
A predicted model is not an experimentally determined structure.
Connected concepts
- Predicted structure is related to mmCIFCitation ↗
- Predicted structure is produced by Structure moduleCitation ↗
- mmCIF is related to Predicted structureCitation ↗
- Ranked model is a type of Predicted structureCitation ↗
- Predicted aligned error is used to interpret Predicted structureCitation ↗
- pTM is used to interpret Predicted structureCitation ↗
Sources & citations
Check your understanding
Which memory aid describes Predicted structure?
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