{"id":222585,"date":"2025-09-27T08:33:16","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/scientists-launch-worlds-most-comprehensive-human-virus-protein-database"},"modified":"2025-09-27T08:33:16","modified_gmt":"2025-09-27T13:33:16","slug":"scientists-launch-worlds-most-comprehensive-human-virus-protein-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/scientists-launch-worlds-most-comprehensive-human-virus-protein-database","title":{"rendered":"Scientists launch world\u2019s most comprehensive human virus protein database"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-launch-worlds-most-comprehensive-human-virus-protein-database2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harnessing the power of AI, a research team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research has launched <a href=\"https:\/\/viro3d.cvr.gla.ac.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Viro3D <\/a>\u2014the most comprehensive database of human and animal virus protein structure predictions in the world.<\/p>\n<p>The free and searchable AI-powered <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/database\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">database<\/a> offers a completely new, in-depth perspective on viruses, allowing us to quickly learn more about their origins and evolution.<\/p>\n<p>Although <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/virus+particles\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">virus particles<\/a> are the most abundant biological entities on our planet, these tiny structures remain among the least well-understood. Insights into the key <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/protein\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">protein<\/a> structures within viruses have, until now, only been achieved through slow and laborious research work, a pace that has impacted our ability to develop treatments and vaccines at speed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Harnessing the power of AI, a research team at the MRC-University of Glasgow Center for Virus Research has launched Viro3D \u2014the most comprehensive database of human and animal virus protein structure predictions in the world. The free and searchable AI-powered database offers a completely new, in-depth perspective on viruses, allowing us to quickly learn more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222585","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}