Providing a solution

AlphaFold2 won CASP14 by a considerable margin and was recognised as a solution to the 50-year-old “ protein-folding problem ” by the organisers of CASP . It predicted structures down to atomic accuracy with a median error ( RMSD _ 95 ) of less than 1 Angstrom .

Opening up to the scientific community

In 2021 , DeepMind – in partnership with The European Bioinformatics Institute – launched its AlphaFold Protein Structure Database . This gave the scientific community free and open access to the human proteome , along with another 20 model organisms – over 350,000 structures in total .

nt of AlphaFold , an AI program ape of proteins , and will help l processes of every living thing .

Continuous growth of the database

In the latest development , DeepMind has expanded the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database from nearly 1 million to over 200 million structures , including predictions for most proteins in UniProt . Over 300,000 researchers worldwide have made use of the database to date .

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