RCSB Protein Data Bank: Biological Macromolecular Structures Enabling Research and Education in Fundamental Biology, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Energy

Overview

Journal Nucleic Acids Res

Publisher Oxford University Press

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2018 Oct 26

PMID 30357411

Citations 485

Authors

Stephen K Burley

Helen M Berman

Charmi Bhikadiya

Chunxiao Bi

Li Chen

Luigi Di Costanzo

Cole Christie

Ken Dalenberg

Jose M Duarte

Shuchismita Dutta

Zukang Feng

Sutapa Ghosh

David S Goodsell

Rachel K Green

Vladimir Guranovic

Dmytro Guzenko

Brian P Hudson

Tara Kalro

Yuhe Liang

Robert Lowe

Harry Namkoong

Ezra Peisach

Irina Periskova

Andreas Prlic

Chris Randle

Alexander Rose

Peter Rose

Raul Sala

Monica Sekharan

Chenghua Shao

Lihua Tan

Yi-Ping Tao

Yana Valasatava

Maria Voigt

John Westbrook

Jesse Woo

Huanwang Yang

Jasmine Young

Marina Zhuravleva

Christine Zardecki

Affiliations

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Abstract

The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB, rcsb.org), the US data center for the global PDB archive, serves thousands of Data Depositors in the Americas and Oceania and makes 3D macromolecular structure data available at no charge and without usage restrictions to more than 1 million rcsb.org Users worldwide and 600 000 pdb101.rcsb.org education-focused Users around the globe. PDB Data Depositors include structural biologists using macromolecular crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and 3D electron microscopy. PDB Data Consumers include researchers, educators and students studying Fundamental Biology, Biomedicine, Biotechnology and Energy. Recent reorganization of RCSB PDB activities into four integrated, interdependent services is described in detail, together with tools and resources added over the past 2 years to RCSB PDB web portals in support of a 'Structural View of Biology.'

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