The San Diego Supercomputer Center is marking the Protein Data Bank's 55th anniversary. UC San Diego's October 26 account says the open archive began in 1971 with seven X-ray protein structures and now contains more than 260,000 atomic-level three-dimensional models. Sources: SDSC marks Protein Data Bank anniversary.
The U.S. data center, RCSB PDB, combines work at SDSC and UC San Diego with Rutgers and UC San Francisco. It participates in a worldwide partnership whose centers curate and distribute structural data contributed by research laboratories. The archive gives researchers public tools to explore those structures. Sources: SDSC marks Protein Data Bank anniversary.
Compiled by San Diego Sentinel Staff with AI assistance from the linked public records. First published October 27, 2026 08:09 -07:00 (Pacific time).