# How Open Science Can Help Researchers Prepare for the Next Pandemic

The predicted structures were generated using AlphaFold2 optimized with NVIDIA BioNeMo Inference Runtime and added to the AlphaFold Database.

- About 30% of the viral protein interactions in the dataset have never been documented in the Protein Data Bank
- NVIDIA also open-sourced the BioNeMo Structure Prediction Pipeline, the GPU-accelerated workflow used to generate the dataset
- The dataset covers viral families known to infect humans, ranging from common-cold viruses to emerging threats like Mpox

## Why it matters

Virologists and drug developers gain open structural models for thousands of uncharacterized viral protein complexes to accelerate vaccine and treatment design.

## Sources

- [NVIDIA AI: How Open Science Can Help Researchers Prepare for the Next Pandemic](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-protein-dataset)

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Summarized by dstilled on 2026-09-30. https://dstilled.ai/story/7ca8e3d1-c0e5-48ab-bae0-b0eedc47c1f3