New scientific database ‘could revolutionise the way diseases are treated’

Protein structures representing the data obtained using AlphaFold (Karen Arnott/EMBL-EBI)

Solving one of biology’s biggest mysteries has led to the creation of a new scientific database that could revolutionise the way diseases are treated, according to scientists.

Researchers from Google-owned artificial intelligence (AI) lab DeepMind, and European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL), have launched a database featuring 20,000 structures for the complete set of proteins expressed in the human body, known as the human proteome.