The Protein Data Bank (PDB)

Brief History and Operation

http://www.rcsb.org/pdb

H.M.Berman, J.Westbrook, Z.Feng, G.Gilliland, T.N.Bhat, H.Weissig, I.N.Shindyalov, P.E.Bourne: The Protein Data Bank. Nucleic Acids Research, 28 pp. 235-242 (2000) [PDF file]

History

• Established in 1972 at Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL)
• Became the sole international repository for macromolecular structure data
• Rich in history which is reflected in the data (see Weissig and Bourne 1999 Bioinformatics 15(10) 807-831)
• Moved to the Research Collaboraty for Structural Bioinformatics