Today with @emblebi, we're launching the #AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, which offers the most complete and accurate picture of the human proteome, doubling humanity’s accumulated knowledge of high-accuracy human protein structures - for free: dpmd.ai/alphafolddb 1/
We’re also sharing the proteomes of 20 other biologically-significant organisms, totalling over 350k structures. Soon we plan to expand to over 100 million, covering almost every sequenced protein known to science & the @uniprot reference database.

dpmd.ai/alphafold-blog 2/
We’re excited to see how this will enable and accelerate research for scientists around the world. We've already seen promising signals from early collaborators using #AlphaFold in their own work, including @DNDi, @CEI_UoP, @UCSF & @CUBoulder: dpmd.ai/alphafold-case… 3/
Completing the sprint to deliver on the commitments we made at #CASP14 last Dec, we’ve published 2 papers in @Nature, open-sourced #AlphaFold's code and provided a colab. 4/

dpmd.ai/nature-proteome
dpmd.ai/nature-methods
dpmd.ai/alphafold-os
dpmd.ai/alphafold-colab
This represents 5 years of hard work & ingenuity from our #AlphaFold team, building on the discoveries of generations of scientists who researched these exquisite biological machines. We hope this aids many more scientists & opens up new avenues of scientific discovery for all.5/

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