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The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a community resource. But how do we define community, and how has it changed over the last 50 years since the PDB was founded? How did the community influence the evolution of the PDB, and how did the PDB influence both the science and the behavior of the community?
Rapid progress is being made in our understanding of RNA–protein interactions, their role in disease and their influence on the action of oligonucleotide drugs.
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