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The Protein Data Bank (PDB) site is the repository for three-dimensional macromolecular structures. It currently contains more than 100,000 structures. (http://www.pdb.org).

National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) contains molecular biological databases and software for analysis. (http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/).