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has historically been an .

The Protein Databank was established in 1971, and you could write to them requesting the 7 structures available at the time be mailed to you (presumably on tape).
rcsb.org/pages/about-us/histor

Now the PDB contains over 225,000 experimentally determined structures. Most structural biology software (Phenix, CCP4, Relion, CCPEM, CCPN) is open source.

Deepmind published AF3 in Nature but did not release the code (as per Nature requirements).

www.rcsb.orgRCSB PDB: PDB HistoryThe PDB was established in 1971 at Brookhaven National Laboratory under the leadership of Walter Hamilton and originally contained 7 structures.