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50 years of PDB: a catalyst in structural biology

Integrative structural biology, the culmination of experimental and theoretical methods, will provide a holistic view of molecular processes.

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Fig. 1: Artist’s conception of integrative structural biology of dynamical landscapes.

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The author is a member of the scientific advisory board of the Molecular & Cellular Structure cluster of the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI), operating the PDB Europe site (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/about/sac).

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Bonvin, A.M.J.J. 50 years of PDB: a catalyst in structural biology. Nat Methods 18, 448–449 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01138-y

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