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The editors of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology have assembled a special Essay Collection, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the Protein Data Bank, to reflect on the history and future of structural biology. These personal accounts collectively tell the history of structural biology and provide perspectives on the direction of the field and challenges that it faces.
