The AlphaFold Education Summit (AFES) was a collaborative initiative designed to enable researchers and educators globally to fully harness the transformative potential of AlphaFold. This event provided a platform to engage with the possibilities and challenges of integrating AlphaFold into scientific research and education. Special focus was given to addressing the unique needs and limitations faced by educators and researchers in under-resourced regions, aiming to enhance both accessibility and practical application in diverse contexts.

By providing access to bespoke training, resources, and a supportive community, we aimed to empower scientists to advance their research and address local, regional and global scientific challenges.

The goal of the summit was to train and empower researchers, educators and others to upskill and train researchers working in under-resourced regions in the use and application of AlphaFold to their research. 

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Using these materials

Using these materials 

These course materials provide a mixture of lectures, presentations and practicals to enable researchers and educators globally to fully harness the transformative potential of AlphaFold. You may select your topic of interest from the Course content page to view the relevant materials or work your way through all the course materials. 

To find out more about the trainers who created these materials, follow the links from the Course content page or go directly to the Trainer biographies page. 

In the Further learning section you may explore the details about the EMBL-EBI’s free access online tutorials and webinars on a variety of life sciences topics.

If you would like to provide feedback on this set of course materials, please use the form on the Your feedback page.

Please note the the learning outcomes listed below refer to the AlphaFold Education Summit event which took place in January 2025: the more interactive aspect of the event may not be reflected in the online version provided here.

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Learning outcomes

By participating in the AlphaFold Education Summit, you will be part of a global community dedicated to advancing scientific research and addressing pressing global challenges.

• Enhanced expertise and capacity. The summit will foster a vibrant network of AlphaFold users, through hands-on workshops and train-the-trainer sessions, the summit will empower both less experienced  and expert researchers with advanced AlphaFold skills and knowledge, enabling them to train a target number of researchers within the next 12 months and establish local expertise hubs in their university, country or region.
• Co-created , contextualised AlphaFold training resources. Through collaborative workshops and knowledge exchange, the summit will result in the development of training materials and resources that are tailored to the needs, challenges, and research priorities of researchers working in under-resourced regions. These resources will be accessible, relevant, and adaptable to local contexts, ensuring a sustainable impact on AlphaFold adoption.
• Acceleration of collaborative research. The summit will stimulate meaningful networking and collaborations between researchers across different regions that are leveraging AlphaFold's capabilities to address regionally relevant challenges. 

Material collection editors

• Cath Brooksbank, EMBL-EBI
• Sameer Velankar, EMBL-EBI
• Paulyna Gabriela Magana Gomez, EMBL-EBI
• Piv Gopalasingam, EMBL-EBI
• Oleg Kovalevskiy, Google DeepMind
• Augustin Žídek, Google DeepMind

DOI: 10.6019/TOL.AFES-t.2025.00001.1