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ModelArchive is developed by the Computational Structural Biology Group at the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics at the Biozentrum, University of Basel.
Macromolecular structure models deposited in the ModelArchive are, unless explicitly stated otherwise in the Downloads section of each model, licensed under the CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. It means that you can copy and redistribute the macromolecular structure models in any medium or format, transform and build upon the models for any purpose, even commercially, under the following terms:
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FAIR USE POLICY
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