Managing plastic pollution
91% of all plastic ever produced has never been recycled. AlphaFold could help us face up to the challenge of cleaning up our world.
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AlphaFold
Accelerating breakthroughs in biology with AI
AlphaFold Server
Powered by AlphaFold 3 — AlphaFold Server predicts how proteins will interact with other molecules throughout cells.
AlphaFold Protein Structure Database
View over 200 million protein structure predictions to support your research.
AlphaFold 3
Access the AlphaFold 3 model code and weights for academic use.
AlphaFold has revealed millions of intricate 3D protein structures, and is helping scientists understand how life’s molecules interact.
What is AlphaFold?
Proteins underpin every biological process, in every living thing.
Made from long chains of amino acids, each has a unique complex 3D structure. But figuring out just one of these can take several years, and hundreds of thousands of dollars. In 2020, AlphaFold solved this problem, with the ability to predict protein structures in minutes, to a remarkable degree of accuracy.
That’s helping researchers understand what individual proteins do and how they interact with other molecules. So valuable time and resources can be redirected into advancing research that could help solve society’s biggest medical and environmental challenges.
What took us months and years to do, AlphaFold was able to do in a weekend.
Over 2 million researchers in over 190 countries are using the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database to inform their research.
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Supporting global food supplies
40% of the world’s crops are lost to disease each year. AlphaFold could unlock insights that help keep food on tables.
AlphaFold’s impact
AlphaFold has already made a significant impact. We hope it will eventually help to transform our understanding of the biological world.
So far, AlphaFold has predicted over 200 million protein structures – nearly all catalogued proteins known to science. The AlphaFold Protein Structure Database makes this data freely available. So far, it has over two million users in 190 countries. That means it has already potentially saved millions of dollars and hundreds of millions of years in research time.
Meanwhile, AlphaFold Server predicts how proteins will interact with a broad spectrum of biomolecules, accelerating new 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.
Accelerating breakthroughs
Scientists are using AlphaFold to accelerate research in nearly every field of biology.
Stopping malaria in its tracks
Targeting early-onset Parkinson’s with AI
Solving the mystery of how an ancient bird went extinct
AlphaFold transforms biology for millions around the world
Fighting osteoporosis before it starts
Tracing the evolution of proteins back to the origin of life
Understanding the faulty proteins linked to cancer and autism
Creating plastic-eating enzymes that could save us from pollution
How the honeybee could help protect species around the world
Advancing discovery of better drugs and medicine
The race to cure a billion people from a deadly parasitic disease
Accelerating the race against antibiotic resistance
AlphaFold unlocks one of the greatest puzzles in biology
AlphaFold has allowed us to take our project to the next level, from a fundamental science stage to the preclinical and clinical development stage.
AlphaFold Server
Powered by AlphaFold 3 — AlphaFold Server predicts how proteins will interact with other molecules throughout cells.
Try AlphaFold
A powerful suite of tools, helping the scientific community advance research.
AlphaFold Protein Structure Database
View over 200 million protein structure predictions to support your research.
AlphaFold Server
AlphaFold Server predicts how proteins will interact with other molecules throughout cells.
AlphaFold 3
Access the AlphaFold 3 model code and weights for academic use.