AlphaFold as a Prior: Experimental StructureDetermination Conditioned on a Pretrained Neural Network
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ROCKET refines AlphaFold2 predictions against crystallographic, cryo-EM and cryo-ET data by gradient descent on MSA cluster profiles, capturing loop flips and domain shifts without retraining.
Nature Methods · Apr 1, 2026Peer-reviewedBiophysics✦ In-depth digest