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As 2021 comes to an end, we take this opportunity to look back through the pages of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology and consider some of the year’s highlights.
In the last year and a half, our lives have changed dramatically. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology has also changed. Here we share some of the positive changes that we are embracing.
Structural biology plays a crucial role in the fight against COVID-19, permitting us to ‘see’ and understand SARS-CoV-2. However, the macromolecular structures of SARS-CoV-2 proteins that were solved with great speed and urgency can contain errors that may hinder drug design. The Coronavirus Structural Task Force has been working behind the scenes to evaluate and improve these structures, making the results freely available at https://insidecorona.net/.
Artistic techniques are essential tools to visualize, understand and disseminate the results of scientific research. The field of structural biology has enjoyed a particularly productive marriage of art and science.
We celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Protein Data Bank together with our colleagues at Nature Methods with a special collection that showcases key achievements in structural biology and views of its future.