DeepMind's AlphaFold team worked for five years and closely with EMBL-EBI for the past few months to be able to share the AlphaFold resource.

True if the evidence shows the AlphaFold project had been under way for about five years by July 2021 (started around 2016) and that DeepMind had worked with EMBL-EBI in the months before the July 2021 launch of the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, which they launched together. Mostly true if both hold but the project's length is a little off, for example 4 or 6 years. Mixed if only one of the two parts holds, for example the collaboration is confirmed but the project began much later than 2016. Mostly false if the database was released but EMBL-EBI was not a working partner and only hosted it, or if the timeline is badly wrong. False if no joint DeepMind–EMBL-EBI release took place in July 2021.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 DeepMind and EMBL release the most complete database of predicted 3D structures of human proteins EMBL-EBI · 22 July 2021

   “22 July 2021, London – DeepMind today announced its partnership with the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Europe’s flagship laboratory for the life sciences, to make the most complete and accurate database yet of predicted protein structure models for the human proteome.”

2. E2 Great expectations – the potential impacts of AlphaFold DB EMBL-EBI · 22 July 2021

   “DeepMind and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) have partnered, initially for a 2-year period, to make hundreds of thousands (and eventually many millions) of AlphaFold structure predictions freely available to the community through a new data resource, AlphaFold DataBase (AlphaFold DB).”

3. E3 AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology DeepMind · 30 November 2020 Own record

   “Now, after 4 years of effort building AlphaFold, we’re starting to see that vision realised, with implications for areas like drug design and environmental sustainability.”

4. E4 DeepMind and EMBL release the most complete database of predicted 3D structures of human proteins EMBL-EBI · 22 July 2021

   “I am very proud that EMBL has been able to help DeepMind in enabling open access to this remarkable resource.”

E1 and E2, both from EMBL-EBI and dated 22 July 2021, confirm that DeepMind and EMBL-EBI announced a partnership and jointly released AlphaFold DB that day. E4 quotes EMBL as saying it helped DeepMind enable open access to the resource. DeepMind's own November 2020 post (E3) mentions "4 years of effort building AlphaFold", which puts the project at about 4.5 to 5 years by July 2021. That is consistent with the claim, but it comes from the subject itself. No source gives a start date for the collaboration, so "the past few months" is implied by the joint launch rather than shown directly.