Charlie is correct about who established the PDB in 1971
and I assume that it was their decision to use Diamond
format initially. When I started at the PDB in summer
1974 there already were 14 entries, in Diamond format.
Frances
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On Fri, 4 Jan 2013, 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...)
