The Protein Data Bank: unifying the archive

• Published in: Nucleic acids research Vol. 30; no. 1; pp. 245 - 248
• Main Authors: Westbrook, John, Feng, Zukang, Jain, Shri, Bhat, T N, Thanki, Narmada, Ravichandran, Veerasamy, Gilliland, Gary L, Bluhm, Wolfgang, Weissig, Helge, Greer, Douglas S, Bourne, Philip E, Berman, Helen M
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: England Oxford Publishing Limited (England) 01.01.2002; Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Amino Acid Sequence; Animals; Archives; Database Management Systems; Databases, Protein; Enzymes - chemistry; Forecasting; Information Storage and Retrieval; Internet; Ligands; Polymers - chemistry; Protein Conformation; Proteins - chemistry; Quality Control; Stereoisomerism; Terminology as Topic; User-Computer Interface
• ISSN: 1362-4962; 0305-1048; 1362-4962
• DOI: 10.1093/nar/30.1.245

The Protein Data Bank (PDB; http://www.pdb.org/) is the single worldwide archive of structural data of biological macromolecules. This paper describes the progress that has been made in validating all data in the PDB archive and in releasing a uniform archive for the community. We have now produced a collection of mmCIF data files for the PDB archive (ftp://beta.rcsb.org/pub/pdb/uniformity/data/mmCIF/). A utility application that converts the mmCIF data files to the PDB format (called CIFTr) has also been released to provide support for existing software.