data bank
or da·ta·bank
a fund of information on a particular subject or group of related subjects, usually stored in and used via a computer system.
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How to use data bank in a sentence
They grew larger, into the vast data banks and sprawling server farms of the cloud.
Duntsch was not reported to either the data bank or the Texas Medical Board, preventing him from being tracked as he continued his career elsewhere in the state.
Peacock's Dr. Death Is Based on A Chilling True Crime Podcast About a Murderous Surgeon. Here's What to Know | Mahita Gajanan | July 16, 2021 | TimeThe neural network, trained on protein data banks of roughly 170,000 protein structures, could then interpret the protein’s structure as a “3D map” and analyze any buried relationships or patterns.
DeepMind’s AlphaFold Is Close to Solving One of Biology’s Greatest Challenges | Shelly Fan | December 15, 2020 | Singularity HubIt compared multiple sequences in the data bank and looked for pairs of amino acids that often end up close together in folded structures.
DeepMind’s protein-folding AI has solved a 50-year-old grand challenge of biology | Will Heaven | November 30, 2020 | MIT Technology ReviewDeepMind trained AlphaFold on around 170,000 proteins taken from the protein data bank, a public repository of sequences and structures.
DeepMind’s protein-folding AI has solved a 50-year-old grand challenge of biology | Will Heaven | November 30, 2020 | MIT Technology Review
British Dictionary definitions for data bank
a store of a large amount of information, esp in a form that can be handled by a computer
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