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Studying many of them by classical methods of virology is difficult due to the absence of live viral particles or a sufficient amount of their genetic material. In this case, the use of modern methods of bioinformatics and synthetic and structural biology can help. Haseki tick virus (HSTV) is a recently discovered tick-borne unclassified ssRNA(+) virus. HSTV-positive patients experienced fever and an elevated temperature. However, at the moment, there is no information on the tertiary structure and functions of its proteins. In this work, we used AlphaFold 3 and other bioinformatic tools for the annotation of HSTV nonstructural proteins, based on the principle that the tertiary structure of a protein is inextricably linked with its molecular function. We were the first to obtain models of tertiary structures and describe the putative functions of HSTV nonstructural proteins (NS3 helicase, NS3 protease, NS5 RNA-dependent RNA-polymerase, and NS5 methyltransferase), which play a key role in viral genome replication. 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