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Open Protein Atlas

An open map of neglected-disease proteins anyone can build on.

Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪

What I’m building

Open Protein Atlas runs structure prediction across the proteins of diseases the pharma industry ignores — because there’s no money in them — and releases every structure, openly, for any researcher to use. Think a public reference map for the diseases that mostly hurt the poor.

Why I’m building it

Compute decides which diseases get studied. Labs with big GPU budgets map profitable proteins; the rest go dark. Open science means the map belongs to everyone. A student in Nairobi should start where the frontier is, not from scratch.

What the tokens unlock

This is almost entirely compute. Pledged GPU credits run the folding predictions across thousands of proteins and re-run them as better models ship. Every result goes into the public database immediately.

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Fold the first 2,000 priority proteins3M
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Expand to the full neglected-disease target list3M
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Public API + reproducible pipeline release2M

Tools & models

Protein folding modelHeavy GPU compute

lenaf/open-protein-atlas

The builder

Dr. Lena Fischer

Nairobi, Kenya 🇰🇪

Computational biologist. Open science or it didn’t happen. Mapping neglected-disease proteins in the open.

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Updates

1,100 structures released to the public DB
7d ago
Two labs have already cited the early set. This is exactly why it’s open.

Supporters

72 people have pledged so far.

Anonymous supporter· 2d ago
“Rooting for you. This should exist.”
250KCompute
Rae ColemanChicago, USA· 4d ago
1MClaude
Ken WatanabeTokyo, Japan· 6d ago
“Take my credits and go build it.”
500KGemini
María TorresBarcelona, Spain· 8d ago
100KAI Credits
Anonymous supporter· 10d ago
500KOpenAI

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