AlphaFold database expands to over 200 million structures

DeepMind and EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute expanded the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database on 28 July 2022, from roughly 1 million predicted protein structures to more than 200 million, covering nearly every sequence catalogued in UniProt.

Why it mattered The predictions were free to use, giving researchers in drug discovery and other fields a predicted three-dimensional structure for almost every protein then known.