---
title: esmfold_v1
description: ESMFold is a state-of-the-art end-to-end protein folding model based on an ESM-2 backbone. It does not require any lookup or MSA step, and therefore does not require any external databases to be present in order to make predictions. As a result, inference time is very significantly faster than AlphaFold2. For details on the model architecture and training, please refer to the accompanying
tags:
- esm
- protein
- structure
license: mit
source_url: https://huggingface.co/facebook/esmfold_v1
---

# esmfold_v1

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ESMFold is a state-of-the-art end-to-end protein folding model based on an ESM-2 backbone. It does not require any lookup or MSA step, and therefore does not require any external databases to be present in order to make predictions. As a result, inference time is very significantly faster than AlphaFold2. For details on the model architecture and training, please refer to the accompanying

Upstream identifier: `facebook/esmfold_v1`.

**Source:** https://huggingface.co/facebook/esmfold_v1

**Licence:** mit

_This model is part of the Atlas demo catalogue. See the repository history for provenance._