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Health & biology · 1971

Protein Data Bank

A shared archive of solved protein structures that opened with seven entries.

Founded at Brookhaven in 1971, the PDB grew to more than 200,000 experimental structures. Its open data trained the protein-folding programs, including AlphaFold, that came five decades later.

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