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Rita K. Hayford

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Approach:statistical model· 3 Research Focus:benchmarking· 2 Assay:protein structure· 2 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 2 Organism:zebrafish· 2 Approach:benchmark study· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Approach:deep learning· 1

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Why do some predicted protein structures fold poorly? Benchmarking AlphaFold, ESMFold, and Boltz in maize

Olivia C. Haley, Laura E. Tibbs‐Cortes, Rita K. Hayford, Stephen F. Harding, Margaret Roth Woodhouse, Ethalinda K. S. Cannon, Jack M. Gardiner, John L. Portwood, Taner Z. Sen, Hye-Seon Kim, Carson M. Andorf

The paper benchmarks AlphaFold, ESMFold, and Boltz in maize to assess their performance on plant proteins, finding lower confidence scores and geometry issues in less conserved proteins.

bioRxiv · Jul 5, 2025 · PreprintBioinformatics

PanEffect: A pan-genome visualization tool for variant effects in maize

Carson M. Andorf, Olivia C. Haley, Rita K. Hayford, John L. Portwood, Stephen Harding, Shatabdi Sen, Ethalinda K. S. Cannon, Jack M. Gardiner, Hye-Seon Kim, Margaret Roth Woodhouse

PanEffect visualizes variant effects across 51 maize genomes using ESM scores, enabling exploration of 550 million amino acid substitutions and 2.3 million natural variations.

Bioinformatics · Feb 1, 2024Peer-reviewedBioinformatics

FASSO: An AlphaFold based method to assign functional annotations by combining sequence and structure orthology

Carson M. Andorf, Shatabdi Sen, Rita K. Hayford, John L. Portwood, Ethalinda K. S. Cannon, Lisa C. Harper, Jack M. Gardiner, Taner Z. Sen, Margaret Roth Woodhouse

FASSO combines sequence and structure orthology to improve ortholog prediction across species, annotating over 270,000 functions in plant and outgroup proteomes.

bioRxiv · Nov 10, 2022 · PreprintBioinformatics