Huge thanks to my fellow authors and their stellar work in making VAD a reality

Especially my PI @gemmaatkinson.bsky.social and our wonderful collaborators @joanampereira.bsky.social and @ninjani.bsky.social

VAD is available:

Browse clusters & visualize structures:
vad.atkinson-lab.com

Download predicted structures:
data-sharing.atkinson-lab.com/vad/

Comprehensive metadata (seqs + PAE):
data-sharing.atkinson-lab.com/madeposit/

Viral AlphaFold Database (VAD) is live in Science Advances

~27,000 predicted viral protein monomers & homodimers

Conserved folds across bacteria, archaea & eukaryotic viruses

New toxin–antitoxin system KreTA uncovered

Vast “functional darkness” remains uncharted

www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

The Viral AlphaFold Database of monomers and homodimers reveals conserved protein folds in viruses of bacteria, archaea, and eukaryotes https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2025.05.14.653371v1