AlphaFold DB expands to 200 million structures

Predicted structures for nearly every catalogued protein known to science are released freely.

What happened and why it matters

Expanding from ~1 million to over 200 million predicted structures, the database effectively mapped the known protein universe — work that would have taken experimental methods centuries.

Sources

• AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe ↗ Google DeepMind · 28 Jul 2022