Timeline: the march of structural biology.
One hundred years ago, we knew very little about biological macromolecules and had no tools available to study their structure. Structural biology is now a mature science. New structures are being solved at an ever-increasing rate and there are important new initiatives to determine all the protein folds that are used by biological systems (structural genomics). This article traces some of the key developments in the field.
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Iain D
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Department of Biochemistry, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3QU, UK. idc@bioch.ox.ac.uk
D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D008967:Molecular Biology / Q000266:history* / Q000639:trends; D015394:Molecular Structure