Abstract
Atomic structures of biomolecules have provided the experimental evidence for many of the major discoveries in molecular biology, including the basic principles of protein folding and function, modes of biological information and energy flow, and mechanisms of molecular evolution. These experimental data are freely available in online structural databases.
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