Openly source over 200 million protein structures that help researchers solve countless problems
Big data in biology leads to discoveries that could benefit humanity. This is a central belief in EMBL’s European Institute for Bioinformatics (EMBL-EBI), and has proven that the scientist has been proven to be true since its founding in 1994 at Wellcome Genome Campus in Hinkiston, England.
Part of the European Institute of Molecular Biology, the institute is an intergovernmental research institute funded by more than 20 member states. The data ranges from genomics, proteins, small molecules, data models, and more.
As the champion of open data in life sciences, EMBL-EBI is the natural partner for DeepMind hosting the Alphafold Protein Structure Database, giving scientists worldwide free access to protein structure predictions.
After being launched in 2021 with approximately 365,000 structural predictions, the database contains forecasts over 200m, covering almost every cataloged protein in which science is known, covering several orders of magnitude of understanding of biology.
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