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...)
