Since 1971, the Protein Data Bank archive (PDB) has served as the single repository of information about the 3D structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies.

The Worldwide PDB (wwPDB) organization manages the PDB archive and ensures that the PDB is freely and publicly available to the global community.

Celebrating 50 Years of the PDB


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Vision

Sustain freely accessible, interoperating Core Archives of structure data and metadata for biological macromolecules as an enduring public good to promote basic and applied research and education across the sciences.

Mission

  • Manage the wwPDB Core Archives as a public good according to the FAIR Principles.
  • Provide expert deposition, validation, biocuration, and remediation services at no charge to Data Depositors worldwide.
  • Ensure universal open access to public domain structural biology data with no limitations on usage.
  • Develop and promote community-endorsed data standards for archiving and exchange of global structural biology data.
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Collects 3D volumes & associated information of macromolecular complexes & subcellular structures from electron cryo microscopy & electron cryo tomography; develops resources for searching, data mining, analyzing, validating & visualizing data.

Rich information about all PDB entries, multiple search and browse facilities, advanced services including PDBePISA, PDBeFold and PDBeMotif, advanced visualisation and validation of NMR and EM structures, tools for bioinformaticians.

Supports browsing in multiple languages such as Japanese, Chinese, and Korean; SeSAW identifies functionally or evolutionarily conserved motifs by locating and annotating sequence and structural similarities, tools for bioinformaticians, and more.

Simple and advanced searching for macromolecules and ligands, flexible APIs for programmatic users, specialized 1D-3D visualization tools, Molecule of the Month and other training resources at PDB-101, and more.

Collects NMR data from any experiment and captures assigned chemical shifts, coupling constants, and peak lists for a variety of macromolecules; contains derived annotations such as hydrogen exchange rates, pKa values, and relaxation parameters.

News & Announcements

03/26/2023

Contact authors can log into OneDep using ORCiD authentication and access associated depositions

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03/09/2023

Dr. Kennard was instrumental in the launch of the PDB archive in 1971

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03/07/2023

PDB users and related software developers should review code and begin to prepare for this change that will happen in 2023. Entries containing extended CCD or PDB IDs will not be distributed in legacy PDB file format.

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