{"event":{"id":"evt-alphafold-db-20220728","dedupe_key":"ai_scientific_infrastructure_expansion:2022-07-28:alphafold-protein-structure-database-expands-beyond-200-million-predictions","event_type":"ai_scientific_infrastructure_expansion","title":"AlphaFold Protein Structure Database expands beyond 200 million predictions","summary":"DeepMind and EMBL-EBI made more than 200 million predicted protein structures freely available, covering nearly all catalogued proteins known to science.","occurred_at":"2022-07-28T00:00:00.000Z","published_at":"2022-07-28T00:00:00.000Z","observed_at":"2026-10-02T15:12:29.000Z","reconstructed_at":"2026-10-02T15:12:29.000Z","ingest_type":"live_world_scan","locations":null,"status":"verified","confidence":0.99,"metadata":{"actors":["DeepMind","EMBL-EBI"],"what_happened_at_time":"A very large body of model-generated scientific outputs became a shared, freely accessible research database.","evidence_at_time":"EMBL-EBI and DeepMind July 28 records document expansion from nearly one million to over 200 million predicted structures.","affected_layers":["layer-ai","layer-models","layer-research","layer-software"],"change_kind":"scientific_infrastructure_maturation","q2_continuity":"Q2 research was tightly coupled to model/system engineering; this Q3 event independently shows model output operating as reusable scientific infrastructure.","retrospective_inference":"Model capability could create persistent research artifacts whose downstream use did not require rerunning the originating model.","uncertainty":"Predicted structures are not equivalent to experimentally verified structures, and database scale is not itself evidence of every downstream scientific outcome."},"created_at":"2026-10-02T16:08:16.242Z","updated_at":"2026-10-02T16:08:16.242Z"},"artifacts":[{"id":"art-alphafold-db-20220728","canonical_url":"https://www.ebi.ac.uk/about/news/technology-and-innovation/alphafold-200-million/","artifact_type":"scientific_database_release","title":"AlphaFold DB expansion beyond 200 million structures","summary":"DeepMind and EMBL-EBI expanded the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database to more than 200 million predicted structures and made them freely available to researchers.","creator_entities":["DeepMind","EMBL-EBI"],"released_at":"2022-07-28T00:00:00.000Z","content_hash":null,"metadata":{"historical_scope":"2022-Q3"},"created_at":"2026-10-02T16:08:16.235Z","updated_at":"2026-10-02T16:08:16.235Z","relation":"evidenced_by"}],"signals":[{"id":"sig-q3-ai-scientific-infrastructure","statement":"AI-generated outputs became materially embedded as reusable shared scientific infrastructure rather than only individual model predictions.","signal_type":"research_infrastructure_shift","direction":"increasing","confidence":0.94,"epistemic_status":"supported_inference","mapping_mode":"retrospective","reconstructed_at":"2026-10-02T15:12:29.000Z","created_at":"2026-10-02T16:08:16.253Z","updated_at":"2026-10-02T16:08:16.253Z"}]}