Proteins consist of chains of amino acids which spontaneously fold to form the
Protein structures can be … See more

DeepMind is known to have trained the program on over 170,000 proteins from the Protein Data Bank, a public repository of protein sequences and structures. The program uses a form of attention network, a deep learning technique … See more

In December 2018, DeepMind's AlphaFold placed first in the overall rankings of the 13th Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (CASP).
The program was particularly successfully predicting t… See more

AlphaFold 2 scoring more than 90 in CASP's global distance test (GDT) is considered a significant achievement in computational biology and great progress towards a decades-old grand challenge of biology. Nobel Prize winner … See more

The open access to source code of several AlphaFold versions (excluding AlphaFold 3) has been provided by DeepMind after requests from the scientific community. Full source code of AlphaFold-3 is expected to be provide… See more

The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database was launched on July 22, 2021, as a joint effort between AlphaFold and EMBL-EBI. At launch the database contains AlphaFold-predicted models of protein structures of nearly the full … See more