Health & biology · 2021

AlphaFold Protein Database

Predicted structures for nearly every known protein were released free to all.

Launched with EMBL-EBI in July 2021, the database grew to over 200 million structures by 2022. It put structural biology within reach of labs that had never solved a structure.

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AlphaFold 2 2020

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Training compute of notable AI models Source: Epoch AI, Notable AI Models (CC BY 4.0)

Cost to sequence a human genome Latest: 525 $ (2022) Source: Our World in Data