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The Protein Data Bank: unifying the archive

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: 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.

Source: Nucleic Acids Research

DOI: 10.1093/nar/30.1.245

Author: J. Westbrook

Institutions: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais, National University of Singapore, The University of Osaka

Language: English

Topic: Enzyme Structure and Function

Subfield: Structural Biology

Field: Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology

Domain: Life Sciences

Open Access status: bronze