AlphaFold published in Nature, code released

The AlphaFold 2 method is peer-reviewed and open-sourced, and its structure database launches days later.

What happened and why it matters

Publication and open release turned AlphaFold from a competition result into infrastructure used by hundreds of thousands of researchers, accelerating structural biology broadly.

Sources

• Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold ↗ Nature · 15 Jul 2021