The Protein Data Bank: unifying the archive

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.

• Type: Journal
• Year: 2002
• Where: NAR
• Authors: John D. Westbrook, Zukang Feng, Shri Jain, T. N. Bhat, Narmada Thanki, Veerasamy Ravichandran, Gary Gilliland, Wolfgang Bluhm, Helge Weissig, Douglas S. Greer, Philip E. Bourne, Helen M. Berman
• Keywords: NAR 2002, PDB Archive, Protein Data Bank, Single Worldwide Archive