NVIDIA, DeepMind release open 3D structures for 2,800+ virus protein complexes
AllThingsApx · x · 2026-09-25
NVIDIA announced a coalition with Google DeepMind and EMBL-EBI to openly release predicted 3D structures of protein complexes from more than 2,800 viruses via the AlphaFold Database, giving scientists a head start against future pandemics.
- Structures were inferred with AlphaFold2, scaled to thousands of viral proteomes using NVIDIA's BioNeMo Inference Runtime
- The effort draws on the COVID lesson: decades of prior coronavirus research enabled record-speed vaccines, a head start the next pandemic may not offer
- NVIDIA is also open-sourcing the BioNeMo Structure Prediction Pipeline
"Our ambition with the AlphaFold Database has always been to democratize access to foundational biology at scale," said Risha Patel of Google DeepMind.
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