Sharing the structures

Anticipating innovations in structural biology

“…Starting in about 1982, committees were set up to determine exactly which data should be archived. Fred Richards created a petition signed by many of the leading structural biologists, urging deposition into the PDB (Hufton, 2014). In 1989, the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) published guidelines for the deposition, archival and release of structural data (International Union of Crystallography, 1989).…”