Nucleic Acids Research Advance Access originally published online on December 11, 2007
Nucleic Acids Research 2008 36(Database issue):D426-D433; doi:10.1093/nar/gkm937
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Nucleic Acids Research, 2008, Vol. 36, Database issue D426-D433
© 2007 The Author(s)
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Remediation of the protein data bank archive
1MSD-EBI, EMBL Outstation-Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK, 2RCSB Protein Data Bank, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8087, USA, 3RCSB Protein Data Bank, San Diego Supercomputer Center and the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, Mailcode 0743, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA, 4BioMagResBank, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Department of Biochemistry, 433 Babcock Drive, Madison, WI 53706, USA and 5PDBj, Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, 3-2 Yamadaoka, Suita, Osaka 565-0871, Japan
*To whom correspondence should be addressed. Tel: +1 732 445 4667; Fax: +1 732 445 4320; Email: berman{at}rcsb.rutgers.edu
Received September 13, 2007. Revised October 8, 2007. Accepted October 11, 2007.
The Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB; wwpdb.org) is the international collaboration that manages the deposition, processing and distribution of the PDB archive. The online PDB archive at ftp://ftp.wwpdb.org is the repository for the coordinates and related information for more than 47 000 structures, including proteins, nucleic acids and large macromolecular complexes that have been determined using X-ray crystallography, NMR and electron microscopy techniques. The members of the wwPDB–RCSB PDB (USA), MSD-EBI (Europe), PDBj (Japan) and BMRB (USA)–have remediated this archive to address inconsistencies that have been introduced over the years. The scope and methods used in this project are presented.