On Fri, January 4, 2013 2:31 pm, Carter, Charlie wrote:
> While I cannot be sure about the format, the original PDB was the creation
> of Edgar Meyer, Walter Hamilton, and Helen Berman. Hamilton was at
> Brookhaven, which held the database until 1994. It passed to the Rutgers
> consortium in 1998. It is likely that the format, which hasn't changed
> appreciably for at least 30 years, was their creation. Helen, obviously,
> is still at the helm, having resumed PDB leadership with the Rutgers
> consortium, and she would certainly know who devised the original format.
>
> Charlie
>
> On Jan 4, 2013, at 3:17 PM, Frank von Delft wrote:
>
>> Some spam for your Friday night: does anybody know who invented the PDB
>> file format originally?
>>
>> (We're at the Study Weekend dinner, and Keith Wilson's memory has failed
>> us all...)
>
>
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