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We’re very lucky that today we can go to our computers and instantly start exploring a hundred thousand atomic structures of biomolecules. The structural biology community has spearheaded a comprehensive effort to make the results of biostructural research freely available to everyone. In 1971, a group of scientists at the Brookhaven National Laboratory started an archive of atomic structures, called the Protein Data Bank, as a way to make these structures available. The first archive contained the seven protein structures that were available at the time. Today the archive has grown to over a hundred thousand entries and is managed by centers around the world: RCSB and BMRB in the USA, PDBe in Europe, and PDBj in Japan. Together, they have created online interfaces to this massive archive, providing tools to deposit, curate, find, analyze, and visualize the structures.
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Goodsell, D.S. (2016). The Protein Data Bank. In: Atomic Evidence. Copernicus, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32510-1_1
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