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Title: Protein Data Bank: A Comprehensive Review of 3D Structure Holdings and Worldwide Utilization by Researchers, Educators, and Students

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The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB), funded by the United States National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Department of Energy, supports structural biologists and Protein Data Bank (PDB) data users around the world. The RCSB PDB, a founding member of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) partnership, serves as the US data center for the global PDB archive housing experimentally-determined three-dimensional (3D) structure data for biological macromolecules. As the wwPDB-designated Archive Keeper, RCSB PDB is also responsible for the security of PDB data and weekly update of the archive. RCSB PDB serves tens of thousands of data depositors (using macromolecular crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, electron microscopy, and micro-electron diffraction) annually working on all permanently inhabited continents. RCSB PDB makes PDB data available from its research-focused web portal at no charge and without usage restrictions to many millions of PDB data consumers around the globe. It also provides educators, students, and the general public with an introduction to the PDB and related training materials through its outreach and education-focused web portal. This review article describes growth of the PDB, examines evolution of experimental methods for structure determination viewed through the lens of themore » PDB archive, and provides a detailed accounting of PDB archival holdings and their utilization by researchers, educators, and students worldwide.« less


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Burley, Stephen K., Berman, Helen M., Duarte, Jose M., Feng, Zukang, Flatt, Justin W., Hudson, Brian P., Lowe, Robert, Peisach, Ezra, Piehl, Dennis W., Rose, Yana, Sali, Andrej, Sekharan, Monica, Shao, Chenghua, Vallat, Brinda, Voigt, Maria, Westbrook, John D., Young, Jasmine Y., and Zardecki, Christine. Protein Data Bank: A Comprehensive Review of 3D Structure Holdings and Worldwide Utilization by Researchers, Educators, and Students. Switzerland: N. p., 2022. Web. doi:10.3390/biom12101425.
Burley, Stephen K., Berman, Helen M., Duarte, Jose M., Feng, Zukang, Flatt, Justin W., Hudson, Brian P., Lowe, Robert, Peisach, Ezra, Piehl, Dennis W., Rose, Yana, Sali, Andrej, Sekharan, Monica, Shao, Chenghua, Vallat, Brinda, Voigt, Maria, Westbrook, John D., Young, Jasmine Y., & Zardecki, Christine. Protein Data Bank: A Comprehensive Review of 3D Structure Holdings and Worldwide Utilization by Researchers, Educators, and Students. Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom12101425
Burley, Stephen K., Berman, Helen M., Duarte, Jose M., Feng, Zukang, Flatt, Justin W., Hudson, Brian P., Lowe, Robert, Peisach, Ezra, Piehl, Dennis W., Rose, Yana, Sali, Andrej, Sekharan, Monica, Shao, Chenghua, Vallat, Brinda, Voigt, Maria, Westbrook, John D., Young, Jasmine Y., and Zardecki, Christine. Tue . "Protein Data Bank: A Comprehensive Review of 3D Structure Holdings and Worldwide Utilization by Researchers, Educators, and Students". Switzerland. https://doi.org/10.3390/biom12101425.
@article{osti_1891545,
title = {Protein Data Bank: A Comprehensive Review of 3D Structure Holdings and Worldwide Utilization by Researchers, Educators, and Students},
author = {Burley, Stephen K. and Berman, Helen M. and Duarte, Jose M. and Feng, Zukang and Flatt, Justin W. and Hudson, Brian P. and Lowe, Robert and Peisach, Ezra and Piehl, Dennis W. and Rose, Yana and Sali, Andrej and Sekharan, Monica and Shao, Chenghua and Vallat, Brinda and Voigt, Maria and Westbrook, John D. and Young, Jasmine Y. and Zardecki, Christine},
abstractNote = {The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB), funded by the United States National Science Foundation, National Institutes of Health, and Department of Energy, supports structural biologists and Protein Data Bank (PDB) data users around the world. The RCSB PDB, a founding member of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) partnership, serves as the US data center for the global PDB archive housing experimentally-determined three-dimensional (3D) structure data for biological macromolecules. As the wwPDB-designated Archive Keeper, RCSB PDB is also responsible for the security of PDB data and weekly update of the archive. RCSB PDB serves tens of thousands of data depositors (using macromolecular crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy, electron microscopy, and micro-electron diffraction) annually working on all permanently inhabited continents. RCSB PDB makes PDB data available from its research-focused web portal at no charge and without usage restrictions to many millions of PDB data consumers around the globe. It also provides educators, students, and the general public with an introduction to the PDB and related training materials through its outreach and education-focused web portal. This review article describes growth of the PDB, examines evolution of experimental methods for structure determination viewed through the lens of the PDB archive, and provides a detailed accounting of PDB archival holdings and their utilization by researchers, educators, and students worldwide.},
doi = {10.3390/biom12101425},
journal = {Biomolecules},
number = 10,
volume = 12,
place = {Switzerland},
year = {Tue Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2022},
month = {Tue Oct 04 00:00:00 EDT 2022}
}

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MicroED structure of the human adenosine receptor determined from a single nanocrystal in LCP
journal, August 2021

  • Martynowycz, Michael W.; Shiriaeva, Anna; Ge, Xuanrui
  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Vol. 118, Issue 36
  • DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2106041118

An RNA-centric historical narrative around the Protein Data Bank
journal, January 2021


Icosahedral virus structures and the protein data bank
journal, January 2021


The distribution and query systems of the RCSB Protein Data Bank
journal, January 2004


Highlighting membrane protein structure and function: A celebration of the Protein Data Bank
journal, January 2021


A perspective on the PDB’s impact on the field of glycobiology
journal, January 2021


Beyond the double helix: DNA structural diversity and the PDB
journal, January 2021


Specimen Preparation for High-Resolution Cryo-EM
book, June 2016


Recognition Dynamics Up to Microseconds Revealed from an RDC-Derived Ubiquitin Ensemble in Solution
journal, June 2008


Evolution of standardization and dissemination of cryo-EM structures and data jointly by the community, PDB, and EMDB
journal, January 2021

  • Chiu, Wah; Schmid, Michael F.; Pintilie, Grigore D.
  • Journal of Biological Chemistry, Vol. 296
  • DOI: 10.1016/j.jbc.2021.100560

RELION: Implementation of a Bayesian approach to cryo-EM structure determination
journal, December 2012


Transmembrane proteins in the Protein Data Bank: identification and classification
journal, June 2004


The MemProtMD database: a resource for membrane-embedded protein structures and their lipid interactions
journal, November 2018

  • Newport, Thomas D.; Sansom, Mark S. P.; Stansfeld, Phillip J.
  • Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 47, Issue D1
  • DOI: 10.1093/nar/gky1047

Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome
journal, July 2021


PDB ‐101: Educational resources supporting molecular explorations through biology and medicine
journal, October 2021

  • Zardecki, Christine; Dutta, Shuchismita; Goodsell, David S.
  • Protein Science, Vol. 31, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1002/pro.4200

A call for public archives for biological image data
journal, October 2018


Three-dimensional structure of (1-71)bacterioopsin solubilized in methanol/chloroform and SDS micelles determined by 15N-1H heteronuclear NMR spectroscopy
journal, January 1994


Crystallography: Protein Data Bank
journal, October 1971


Three-dimensional structure of interleukin 8 in solution
journal, February 1990

  • Clore, G. Marius; Appella, Ettore; Yamada, Masaki
  • Biochemistry, Vol. 29, Issue 7
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BioMagResBank
journal, December 2007

  • Ulrich, E. L.; Akutsu, H.; Doreleijers, J. F.
  • Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 36, Issue Database
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IMGT®, the international ImMunoGeneTics information system® 25 years on
journal, November 2014

  • Lefranc, Marie-Paule; Giudicelli, Véronique; Duroux, Patrice
  • Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 43, Issue D1
  • DOI: 10.1093/nar/gku1056

Validation of Structures in the Protein Data Bank
journal, December 2017


AI-based structure prediction empowers integrative structural analysis of human nuclear pores
journal, June 2022

  • Mosalaganti, Shyamal; Obarska-Kosinska, Agnieszka; Siggel, Marc
  • Science, Vol. 376, Issue 6598
  • DOI: 10.1126/science.abm9506

Integrating 3D structural information into systems biology
journal, January 2021


The PDB and the ribosome
journal, January 2021


Engineering antibody therapeutics
journal, June 2016


Outcome of the First wwPDB Hybrid/Integrative Methods Task Force Workshop
journal, July 2015


Impact of the Protein Data Bank on antineoplastic approvals
journal, May 2020


Three-dimensional electron crystallography of protein microcrystals
journal, November 2013


ModBase, a database of annotated comparative protein structure models and associated resources
journal, November 2013

  • Pieper, Ursula; Webb, Benjamin M.; Dong, Guang Qiang
  • Nucleic Acids Research, Vol. 42, Issue D1
  • DOI: 10.1093/nar/gkt1144

Predicting Proteome-Scale Protein Structure with Artificial Intelligence
journal, December 2021

  • Burley, Stephen K.; Arap, Wadih; Pasqualini, Renata
  • New England Journal of Medicine, Vol. 385, Issue 23
  • DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcibr2113027

Protein Data Bank Japan: Celebrating our 20th anniversary during a global pandemic as the Asian hub of three dimensional macromolecular structural data
journal, October 2021

  • Bekker, Gert‐Jan; Yokochi, Masashi; Suzuki, Hirofumi
  • Protein Science, Vol. 31, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1002/pro.4211

Continuous Evaluation of Ligand Protein Predictions: A Weekly Community Challenge for Drug Docking
journal, August 2019


Federating Structural Models and Data: Outcomes from A Workshop on Archiving Integrative Structures
journal, December 2019


RCSB Protein Data Bank: Celebrating 50 years of the PDB with new tools for understanding and visualizing biological macromolecules in 3D
journal, November 2021

  • Burley, Stephen K.; Bhikadiya, Charmi; Bi, Chunxiao
  • Protein Science, Vol. 31, Issue 1
  • DOI: 10.1002/pro.4213

Worldwide Protein Data Bank biocuration supporting open access to high-quality 3D structural biology data
journal, January 2018


The nucleic acid database. A comprehensive relational database of three-dimensional structures of nucleic acids
journal, September 1992


Responsible Data Science
journal, June 2017

  • van der Aalst, Wil M. P.; Bichler, Martin; Heinzl, Armin
  • Business & Information Systems Engineering, Vol. 59, Issue 5
  • DOI: 10.1007/s12599-017-0487-z

RECOORD: A recalculated coordinate database of 500+ proteins from the PDB using restraints from the BioMagResBank
journal, April 2005

  • Nederveen, Aart J.; Doreleijers, Jurgen F.; Vranken, Wim
  • Proteins: Structure, Function, and Bioinformatics, Vol. 59, Issue 4
  • DOI: 10.1002/prot.20408

The cryo-EM method microcrystal electron diffraction (MicroED)
journal, April 2019