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Creating a protein structure database

AlphaFold: Impact stories

Scientists are using AlphaFold to accelerate research in nearly every field of biology.

Over 2 million researchers in over 190 countries are using the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database to inform their research.

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From building more effective malaria vaccines to breaking down single-use plastics, AlphaFold is helping scientists accelerate research in nearly every field of biology.

It normally takes four years to identify and characterise one of these small proteins. With the help of AlphaFold we managed 23 in a few months.

Professor Renier van der Hoorn
University of Oxford

AlphaFold has allowed us to take our project to the next level, from a fundamental science stage to the preclinical and clinical development stage.

Professor Matthew Higgins
Biochemist

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Creating a protein structure database

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28 July 2022

Creating an open source proteins database

We’ve worked with EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL–EBI) to host the AlphaFold Database. This provides free access to protein structure predictions to scientists around the world.

We originally launched the Database in 2021 with 365,000 protein structure predictions. Now, it contains over 200 million, covering nearly all catalogued proteins known to science.

Research credits

  • European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL)
  • EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL–EBI)