DeepMind, EMBL-EBI, NVIDIA and CEPI add predicted protein-complex structures for 2,800+ viruses to the AlphaFold Database
Result confirmed
The takeaway
On Sept 24, 2026 a consortium of Google DeepMind, EMBL-EBI, NVIDIA, CEPI and universities in Korea, Switzerland and the UK released predicted viral protein-complex structures for more than 2,800 viruses in the AlphaFold Database.
Status
- Claim
Result confirmed
- Our reporting
- High confidence
- Verification
- Unverified claim
- Importance
- 3 of 5
- Last verified
- 29 September 2026
Your AI and this story
- GPT-6 Astra147 days after its cutoff
- Claude Opus 5.586 days after its cutoff
- Gemini 4 Hydrogen177 days after its cutoff
- Grok 4.7116 days after its cutoff
None of these four assistants can know about it. The closest, Claude Opus 5.5, stops 86 days before it.
Key facts
- Complex structures for 2,800+ viruses; ~30% of the interactions are new to science
- Partners: Google DeepMind, EMBL-EBI, NVIDIA, CEPI, Seoul National University, Sungkyunkwan University, SIB, University of Glasgow
- Built with AlphaFold2 on the NVIDIA BioNeMo Inference Runtime; NVIDIA open-sourced its BioNeMo Structure Prediction Pipeline
- AlphaFold Database now holds 260M+ predictions
What happened
An open data release applying structure prediction to viral protein complexes at pandemic-preparedness scale, coordinated with CEPI.
Why it matters
It gives vaccine and antiviral researchers structural hypotheses for thousands of viruses at once. The interactions are predictions and still need experimental checks.
Sources
1 source from 1 site. Numbers match the chips in the text.
1 source: 1 primary
Primary
- NVIDIA blog: open protein datasetblogs.nvidia.com, official
Changes
- Filed