AlphaFoldDB structures included as homology modelling templates · April 2023
With the structural coverage of known proteins in UniProt greatly expanded by the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database (AFDB), these computed structures are now included alongside the experimental structure based templates from the SWISS-MODEL Template Library in the SWISS-MODEL homology modelling pipeline.
If the target sequence can be found by a fast k-mer search of the AFDB at over 70% sequence identity, it will be added to the template results, assigned a GMQE score for ranking, and it will be considered for selection in the automated modelling mode. Currently, this is only used for projects with a single target sequence since AFDB only includes monomers.