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The Protein Data Bank: unifying the archive

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Westbrook, J.·2002·Nucleic Acids Research

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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.

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Authors
Westbrook, J.
Affiliations
Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (US)
Corresponding author
Westbrook, J.
Venue
Nucleic Acids Research
Published
2002-01-01
Volume
30
Issue
1
Pages
245-248
ISSN
  • 0305-1048 (ISSN-L)
  • 1362-4962
OpenAlex
W2147809382
Cited by
309
References
13
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FWCI
27.77
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Nucleic Acids Research (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Rutgers University Community Repository (Rutgers University) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Science Foundation
  • U.S. Department of Energy
  • Universität zu Köln
  • National Institutes of Health
  • National Institute of General Medical Sciences
  • U.S. National Library of Medicine
  • Biological and Environmental Research
Topics
  • Physical Sciences › Materials Science › Materials Chemistry › Enzyme Structure and Function
  • Physical Sciences › Computer Science › Information Systems › Research Data Management Practices
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Protein Structure and Dynamics
Keywords
Protein Data Bank, biological macromolecules, mmCIF, data validation, data format conversion
MeSH terms
Amino Acid Sequence, Animals, Archives, Database Management Systems, Enzymes, Forecasting, Ligands, Terminology as Topic, Polymers, Protein Conformation, Proteins, Quality Control, Stereoisomerism, User-Computer Interface, Information Storage and Retrieval, Internet, Databases, Protein

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