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Only recently has the computational prediction of protein structure based only on protein sequence been addressed effectively by AlphaFold, a neural network approach that can predict the majority of protein structures with X-ray crystallographic accuracy.<\/jats:p>\n                <jats:p>A question that is now of acute relevance is the \u201cinverse protein folding problem\u201d: predicting the sequence of a protein that folds into a specified structure. This will be of immense value in protein engineering and biotechnology, and will allow the design and expression of recombinant proteins that can, for instance, fold into specified structures as a scaffold for the attachment of recombinant antigens, or enzymes with modified or novel catalytic activities.<\/jats:p>\n                <jats:p>Here we describe the development of SeqPredNN, a feed-forward neural network trained with X-ray crystallographic structures from the RCSB Protein Data Bank to predict the identity of amino acids in a protein structure using only the relative positions, orientations, and backbone dihedral angles of nearby residues.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We predict the sequence of a protein expected to fold into a specified structure and assess the accuracy of the prediction using both AlphaFold and RoseTTAFold to computationally generate the fold of the derived sequence. We show that the sequences predicted by SeqPredNN fold into a structure with a median TM-score of 0.638 when compared to  the crystal structure according to AlphaFold predictions, yet these sequences are unique and only 28.4% identical to the sequence of the crystallized protein.<\/jats:p>\n              <\/jats:sec><jats:sec>\n                <jats:title>Conclusions<\/jats:title>\n                <jats:p>We propose that SeqPredNN will be a valuable tool to generate proteins of defined structure for the design of novel biomaterials, pharmaceuticals, catalysts, and reporter systems. The low sequence identity of its predictions compared to the native sequence could prove useful for developing proteins with modified physical properties, such as water solubility and thermal stability. 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