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1Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK.
Abstract:
The announcement of the outstanding performance of AlphaFold 2 in the CASP 14 protein structure prediction competition came at the end of a long year defined by the COVID-19 pandemic. With an infectious organism dominating the world stage, the developers of Alphafold 2 were keen to play their part, accurately predicting novel structures of two proteins from SARS-CoV-2. In their blog post of December 2020, they highlighted this contribution, writing "we've also seen signs that protein structure prediction could be useful in future pandemic response efforts". So, what role does structural biology play in guiding vaccine immunogen design and what might be the contribution of AlphaFold 2?
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