Google DeepMind AlphaFold
AI in Healthcare
Overview
Google DeepMind AlphaFold is an AI system for protein structure prediction that uses deep learning to predict 3D protein structures from amino acid sequences with near-experimental accuracy. AlphaFold has predicted structures for over 200 million proteins, enabling drug discovery, molecular biology research, and understanding of disease mechanisms. It is freely available through the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, transforming biological research worldwide.
- Pricing model
- Free
- Deployment
- SaaS (vendor-hosted)
- Regions served
- Global
- Categories
- Free, Vertical application, Workflow orchestration, Biotechnology, Predictive / classical ML, AI in Healthcare, SaaS (vendor-hosted)
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
- Published
- 2 October 2026
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Data sources & provenance
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- Data quality
- Data quality: Editorially Reviewed
- Primary source
- alphafold.com
- Sources cited
- 2
- Last reviewed
- 28 September 2026
- Last updated
- 2 October 2026
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