DeepMind—DeepMind released AlphaFold Protein Structure Database with 200 million predicted structures as open access
In July 2022, DeepMind expanded the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database from roughly 1 million to over 200 million protein structures covering nearly every known protein on Earth, partnering with EMBL-EBI. The database is freely available under a CC-BY-4.0 license for academic and commercial use. Over 2 million researchers in 190+ countries have used it, potentially saving hundreds of millions of years of research time.
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DeepMind and EMBL-EBI launched AlphaFold DB with 200M+ protein structures under CC-BY-4.0 license
On July 28, 2022, DeepMind expanded the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database from approximately 1 million to over 200 million protein structures from 1 million species, in partnership with EMBL-EBI. All data is freely available under CC-BY-4.0 license. Over 2 million researchers in 190+ countries use the database.