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AlphaFold 3 predictions are most useful when their confidence evidence is preserved and interpreted alongside the predicted structure. This submission revises a basic AlphaFold 3 prediction protocol into AF3-Confidence-Audit, an agent-executable workflow that parses AlphaFold 3 output directories, extracts confidence metrics, flags risky structures or interfaces, and writes a reproducible review package.

This protocol combines AlphaFold 3 structure prediction with molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to assess protein dynamic stability. The workflow produces predicted structures with confidence scores, followed by trajectory-based analysis including RMSD, RMSF, radius of gyration, and hydrogen bond tracking.

This protocol uses AlphaFold 3 to compare wild-type and mutant protein structures, quantifying the structural impact of point mutations. By calculating metrics like local RMSD and pLDDT changes, mutations are categorized as severe, moderate, mild, or negligible.

This protocol combines AlphaFold 3 protein structure prediction with binding site identification and ligand analysis for structure-based drug discovery. While not a replacement for rigorous docking, this workflow generates testable structural hypotheses by analyzing target structure quality, predicting druggability, and assessing ligand binding potential.

This protocol predicts antibody-antigen complex structures using AlphaFold 3, with specialized analysis of paratope-epitope interactions. The workflow extracts key metrics including CDR conformations, interface pLDDT, and predicted contacts, enabling structure-guided antibody optimization for therapeutic development.

This protocol transforms AlphaFold 3 into a high-throughput protein-protein interaction (PPI) screening platform. By predicting binary complexes for multiple candidate proteins against a target and ranking them by interface confidence metrics (pLDDT, PAE, contact count), researchers can generate prioritized lists for experimental validation.

This protocol predicts CRISPR Cas protein-guide RNA binary complexes and Cas-gRNA-DNA ternary complexes using AlphaFold 3. The workflow enables analysis of R-loop formation, PAM recognition, and cleavage readiness, supporting both fundamental research on CRISPR mechanisms and therapeutic development of optimized gene editors.

This protocol predicts RNA secondary and tertiary structures using AlphaFold 3, with extension to RNA-protein complex prediction for RNA-binding proteins. The workflow identifies structured regions, disordered regions, and potential RBP binding interfaces, supporting research on non-coding RNA function and post-transcriptional regulation.

This protocol analyzes protein stability and aggregation propensity using AlphaFold 3 predictions combined with sequence-based aggregation predictors. The workflow identifies unstable regions, predicts aggregation-prone sequences, and analyzes mutation effects on stability, supporting research on proteinopathies including Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, and ALS.

This protocol predicts multiple conformational states of the same protein using AlphaFold 3 by generating alternative inputs with different MSA configurations, ligands, or templates. The workflow enables exploration of conformational heterogeneity including open/closed states, ligand-bound conformations, and different oligomeric states, supporting research on allostery, enzyme catalysis, and molecular machines.

This protocol predicts and compares protein structures across multiple species to identify conserved structural elements and evolutionary relationships. The workflow combines AlphaFold 3 predictions with structural alignment and conservation analysis, supporting comparative genomics, evolutionary biology, and cross-species functional annotation.

Design of sequence-specific DNA binding proteins (DBPs) enables applications in gene regulation, biosensing, and genome editing. This submission presents DNA-Binder-Design, an agent-executable workflow that combines DNA recognition motif selection, structure-guided scaffolding, sequence inverse folding principles, and AlphaFold3-based structure validation to predict and design proteins that bind specific DNA target sequences.

This protocol presents a computational pipeline for virtual screening of peptide candidates against target proteins using AlphaFold 3 structure prediction combined with binding interface analysis. By predicting peptide-protein complex structures and scoring binding likelihood based on interface confidence metrics (pLDDT, PAE, contact count), researchers can efficiently prioritize peptide libraries for experimental validation.

This protocol provides a comprehensive computational pipeline for CRISPR guide RNA design, combining sgRNA efficiency prediction with optional AlphaFold 3 structural validation. The efficiency predictor extracts sequence features including GC content (40-70% optimal), positional nucleotide preferences based on Doench Rules, thermodynamic stability using nearest-neighbor model, and self-complementarity analysis.

We compute per-protein Pearson correlation between AlphaMissense (AM) per-variant Pathogenicity score and AlphaFold pLDDT per-residue structural confidence across variant positions in 2,086 human canonical proteins with >=20 ClinVar missense SNVs. Stop-gain alt=X excluded; dbNSFP v4 via MyVariant.

We examine ClinVar Pathogenic-fraction at N-terminal vs C-terminal first-10 positions where AlphaFold pLDDT is uniformly low due to absence of structural context. ClinVar missense SNVs in dbNSFP v4 via MyVariant.

We characterize a systematic failure mode of AlphaFold (Jumper 2021) per-residue pLDDT confidence: collagen-family proteins receive low pLDDT in their canonical Gly-X-Y triple-helix repeats because AlphaFold predicts monomers and the triple-helix is only stable as trimer. Result: of 6,811 ClinVar Pathogenic missense SNVs in pLDDT<50 regions (canonical 'very low confidence' threshold; Tunyasuvunakool 2021), 2,357 (34.

We perform log-log linear regression of per-protein variant count on protein length for 4,064 proteins with >=10 ClinVar P+B missense single-nucleotide variants AND a matched canonical UniProt with AlphaFold-derived length >=100 aa, restricted to missense (alt!=X).

We compute the per-decile distribution of relative variant position (aa.pos / protein_length) along the protein for 62,221 Pathogenic + 133,884 Benign missense ClinVar single-nucleotide variants (stop-gain alt=X explicitly excluded; dbNSFP v4 via MyVariant.

We quantify the per-position frequency-distribution asymmetry between Pathogenic and Benign premature-termination-codon (PTC) variants in ClinVar (Landrum et al. 2018), as annotated by dbNSFP v4 (Liu et al.