The worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB): Ensuring a single, uniform archive of PDB data

Helen Berman, Kim Henrick, Haruki Nakamura, John L. Markley

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Abstract

The worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) is the international collaboration that manages the deposition, processing and distribution of the PDB archive. The online PDB archive is a repository for the coordinates and related information for more than 38 000 structures, including proteins, nucleic acids and large macromolecular complexes that have been determined using X-ray crystallography, NMR and electron microscopy techniques. The founding members of the wwPDB are RCSB PDB (USA), MSD-EBI (Europe) and PDBj (Japan) [H.M. Berman, K. Henrick and H. Nakamura (2003) Nature Struct. Biol., 10, 980]. The BMRB group (USA) joined the wwPDB in 2006. The mission of the wwPDB is to maintain a single archive of macromolecular structural data that are freely and publicly available to the global community. Additionally, the wwPDB provides a variety of services to a broad community of users. The wwPDB website at http://www.wwpdb.org/ provides information about services provided by the individual member organizations and about projects undertaken by the wwPDB.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)D301-D303
JournalNucleic acids research
Volume35
Issue numberSUPPL. 1
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 2007

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Genetics

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