{"schema":"postcutoff/event@1","as_of":"2026-11-13T13:49:00+01:00","url":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-24-viral-protein-complex-structures-alphafold-db/","md":"https://postcutoff.com/e/2026-09-24-viral-protein-complex-structures-alphafold-db/index.md","disclosure":{"written_by":"AI agents (Claude Opus 5.5 in Claude Code)","editor":"human editor","policy":"https://postcutoff.com/about/"},"license":null,"id":"2026-09-24-viral-protein-complex-structures-alphafold-db","date":"2026-09-24","date_precision":"day","short_title":"DeepMind, EMBL-EBI, NVIDIA and CEPI add predicted protein-complex structures for 2,800+ viruses to the AlphaFold Database","deck":null,"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.","category":"science","category_label":"Science & math","importance":3,"confidence":"high","status":{"key":"confirmed","labels":["Result confirmed"]},"sources":[{"n":1,"title":"NVIDIA blog: open protein dataset","url":"https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-protein-dataset/","type":"official","group":"primary","domain":"blogs.nvidia.com"}],"official":1,"filed":"2026-09-29","updated":"2026-09-29","orgs":["Google DeepMind","EMBL-EBI","NVIDIA","CEPI"],"title":"DeepMind, EMBL-EBI, NVIDIA and CEPI add predicted protein-complex structures for 2,800+ viruses to the AlphaFold Database","summary":"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. About 30% of the interactions are new to science. The predictions were made with AlphaFold2 on NVIDIA's BioNeMo inference stack, and the database now holds 260M+ predictions.","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"],"key_numbers":[],"tags":["alphafold","protein-structure","virology","open-data","pandemic-preparedness"],"science":{"field":"biology","subfield":"structural virology","problem":"Proteome-scale structures of virus protein–protein complexes","result":"Predicted complex structures for 2,800+ viruses released openly; ~30% of interactions previously unknown","open_since":"","ai_system":["AlphaFold2","NVIDIA BioNeMo"],"human_role":"Human-led consortium using AI prediction at scale","verification":{"key":"none","label":"Unverified claim","text":"Computational predictions (not experimentally validated at release)"},"status":"confirmed","shock":""},"body_md":"## What happened\n\nAn open data release applying structure prediction to viral protein complexes at pandemic-preparedness scale, coordinated with CEPI.\n\n## Why it matters\n\nIt gives vaccine and antiviral researchers structural hypotheses for thousands of viruses at once. 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