Session: Primary Biological Databases
wwPDB: An International Collaboratory for Structural
Bioinformatics
Helen M.
Berman (berman@rcsb.rutgers.edu),
RCSB Protein Data Bank, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8087 USA, Kim Henrick
(henrick@ebi.ac.uk)
Structural Database, Macromolecular Structural
Database, European Bioinformatics Institute, EMBL Outstation – Hinxton,
Cambridge, UK,, Haruki Nakamura (harukin@protein.osaka-u.ac.jp)
PDBj, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Japan and
John L. Markley (markley@nmrfam.wisc.edu),
BioMagResBank, Department of Biochemistry, University of Wisconsin-Madison,
Madison, WI 53706-1544, USA.
The
PDB archive has been an international resource for the collection and sharing
of three-dimensional information on proteins and other large molecules since
its inception in 1971. The Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) (http://www.wwPDB.org) consists of organizations
that act as deposition, data processing and distribution centers for PDB data.
The founding members are RCSB PDB (USA), MSD-EBI (Europe) and PDBj (Japan) (Berman
et al., 2003). The BMRB group (USA) joined the wwPDB in
2006. The mission of the wwPDB is to maintain a single Protein Data Bank
Archive of macromolecular structural data that is freely and publicly available
to the global community. A set of guidelines for the distribution of PDB data
has been established. An international advisory board meets yearly with the
members of the wwPDB. The current projects undertaken by the wwPDB will be
described.
Reference: Berman, H.M., Henrick, K., and
Nakamura, H. (2003). Announcing the worldwide Protein Data Bank. Nat Struct
Biol 10, 980.
Keywords:
Protein, macromolecule, structure, data bank, deposition,