title: The Protein Data Bank: unifying the archive.
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.
authors.affiliation: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Department of Chemistry, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8087, USA.
authors.forename: John
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Westbrook
authors.forename: Zukang
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Feng
authors.forename: Shri
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.forename: T N
authors.initials: TN
authors.lastname: Bhat
authors.forename: Narmada
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Thanki
authors.forename: Veerasamy
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Ravichandran
authors.forename: Gary L
authors.initials: GL
authors.lastname: Gilliland
authors.forename: Wolfgang
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Bluhm
authors.forename: Helge
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Weissig
authors.forename: Douglas S
authors.initials: DS
authors.lastname: Greer
authors.forename: Philip E
authors.initials: PE
authors.lastname: Bourne
authors.forename: Helen M
authors.initials: HM
authors.lastname: Berman
mesh_terms: D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D001109:Archives; D003628:Database Management Systems; D030562:Databases, Protein; D004798:Enzymes / Q000737:chemistry; D005544:Forecasting; D016247:Information Storage and Retrieval; D020407:Internet; D008024:Ligands; D011108:Polymers / Q000737:chemistry; D011487:Protein Conformation; D011506:Proteins / Q000737:chemistry*; D011786:Quality Control; D013237:Stereoisomerism; D009626:Terminology as Topic; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D004798:Enzymes; D008024:Ligands; D011108:Polymers; D011506:Proteins