title: The worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB): ensuring a single, uniform archive of PDB data.
abstract: The worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) is the international collaboration that manages the deposition, processing and distribution of the PDB archive. The online PDB archive is a repository for the coordinates and related information for more than 38 000 structures, including proteins, nucleic acids and large macromolecular complexes that have been determined using X-ray crystallography, NMR and electron microscopy techniques. The founding members of the wwPDB are RCSB PDB (USA), MSD-EBI (Europe) and PDBj (Japan) [H.M. Berman, K. Henrick and H. Nakamura (2003) Nature Struct. Biol., 10, 980]. The BMRB group (USA) joined the wwPDB in 2006. The mission of the wwPDB is to maintain a single archive of macromolecular structural data that are freely and publicly available to the global community. Additionally, the wwPDB provides a variety of services to a broad community of users. The wwPDB website at http://www.wwpdb.org/ provides information about services provided by the individual member organizations and about projects undertaken by the wwPDB.
authors.affiliation: RCSB Protein Data Bank, Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8087, USA. berman@rcsb.rutgers.edu
authors.forename: Helen
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Berman
authors.forename: Kim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Henrick
authors.forename: Haruki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Nakamura
authors.forename: John L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Markley
mesh_terms: D030562:Databases, Protein / Q000266:history; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D007391:International Cooperation; D020407:Internet; D046911:Macromolecular Substances / Q000737:chemistry; D008958:Models, Molecular; D011487:Protein Conformation; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D014584:User-Computer Interface
chemical_list: D046911:Macromolecular Substances