NVIDIA, Google DeepMind and EMBL-EBI add viral protein-complex predictions to AlphaFold DB

NVIDIA, Google DeepMind, EMBL-EBI and research partners have made a new set of AI-predicted viral protein-complex structures openly available through AlphaFold DB, aiming to give scientists earlier structural clues for outbreak preparedness. The September 2026 database update adds a Pandemic Preparedness view covering protein predictions from 2,812 viral proteomes across 23 human-health-relevant families, including 5,279 high-confidence heterodimers and 2,749 high-confidence homodimers generated with AlphaFold2 and AlphaFold-Multimer.