AlphaFold database adds more than 8,000 viral protein dimers and launches a pandemic preparedness portal
On 24 September, researchers added more than 8,000 predicted viral protein dimers from 23 virus families to the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database as part of a new pandemic preparedness portal; the structures were generated with AlphaFold2 from an analysis of 41,774 proteins from about 2,800 viruses, and 2,749 homodimers and 5,279 heterodimers were judged accurate enough to be included.