Main article: Protein Data Bank
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) was established in 1971 as the central archive of all experimentally determined protein structure data. Today the PDB is maintained by an international consortia collectively known as the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB). The mission of the wwPDB is to maintain a single archive of macromolecular structural data that is freely and publicly available to the global community.23
Because the PDB releases data into the public domain, the data has been used in various other protein structure databases.
Examples of protein structure databases include (in alphabetical order);
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