DeepMind will release more than 100 million protein structures over the next year, covering almost every sequenced protein known to science.

Deadline: end of December 2022. True: by 2022-12-31, DeepMind (with EMBL-EBI) publicly released more than 100 million predicted protein structures, for example in the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, covering almost all sequenced proteins (for example, nearly all of UniProt). Mostly true: the release happened by the deadline, but with a small difference in a detail, such as the total being just under 100 million or the coverage being described slightly differently. Mostly false: the release came after December 2022, or by the deadline only a much smaller set was released (for example, tens of millions). False: dated evidence shows that the release did not happen or was abandoned.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 AlphaFold reveals the structure of the protein universe DeepMind · 28 July 2022 Own record

   “we’re now releasing predicted structures for nearly all catalogued proteins known to science, which will expand the AlphaFold DB by over 200x - from nearly 1 million structures to over 200 million structures”

2. E2 AlphaFold predicts structure of almost every catalogued protein ... phys.org · 28 July 2022

   “The database is being expanded by approximately 200 times, from nearly 1 million protein structures to over 200 million, covering almost every organism on Earth that has had its genome sequenced.”

3. E3 AlphaFold: where will the next AI breakthrough come from? EMBL-EBI · 22 August 2022

   “DeepMind and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have made available protein structure predictions for approximately 200 million known proteins.”

4. E4 AlphaFold: where will the next AI breakthrough come from? EMBL-EBI · 22 August 2022

   “Being able to download the whole prediction set of over 200 million protein structures will almost certainly stimulate entirely new research directions”

On 2022-07-28 DeepMind announced it was releasing predicted structures for nearly all catalogued proteins known to science. This expanded the AlphaFold DB from nearly 1 million to over 200 million structures [E1]. Independent reporting from phys.org on the same date confirms the expansion to over 200 million structures [E2]. In August 2022, EMBL-EBI stated that structure predictions for about 200 million known proteins had been made available, and that the full set of over 200 million could be downloaded [E3, E4]. The release therefore came before the December 2022 deadline and was larger than the promised 100 million.