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AlphaFold: Impact stories

Scientists are using AlphaFold to accelerate research in nearly every field of biology.

Over 2 million researchers in over 190 countries are using the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database to inform their research.

Up to 1 billion
Research years saved by AlphaFold database structures
Over 600,000
Users in low and middle income countries
21%
Of papers citing AlphaFold are related to the study of disease

Explore some of their stories

From building more effective malaria vaccines to breaking down single-use plastics, AlphaFold is helping scientists accelerate research in nearly every field of biology.

It normally takes four years to identify and characterise one of these small proteins. With the help of AlphaFold we managed 23 in a few months.

Professor Renier van der Hoorn
University of Oxford

AlphaFold has allowed us to take our project to the next level, from a fundamental science stage to the preclinical and clinical development stage.

Professor Matthew Higgins
Biochemist

AlphaFold tools

AlphaFold Database and Server are freely available to the scientific community.

AlphaFold Protein Structure Database

View over 200 million protein structure predictions to support your research.

AlphaFold Server

Predict the structure and interactions of all life’s molecules with unprecedented accuracy.

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