08-May-2008

Workshop on Next Generation Validation Tools for the wwPDB

A meeting of the wwPDB X-ray Validation Task Force was held to collect recommendations and develop consensus on additional validation that should be performed on PDB entries, and to identify software applications to perform validation tasks.

The workshop was organized by Randy Read (Cambridge University), and sponsored by the RCSB PDB & PDBe. Detailed information about the workshop is available at http://www.wwpdb.org/workshop/2008/index.html.

PDB Archives More Than 50,000 Structures

With this week's update, the PDB archive reached a significant milestone in its 37-year history. The 50,000th molecule structure was released into the archive, joining other structures vital to pharmacology, bioinformatics, and education.

The worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) has seen the archive double in size since 2004. The PDB was founded in 1971 with seven structures at Brookhaven National Laboratory. Today, the wwPDB receives approximately 25 new experimentally-determined structures from scientists each day for inclusion in the archive. More than 5 million files are downloaded from the PDB archive every month. Users include structural biologists, computational biologists, biochemists, and molecular biologists in academia, government, and industry as well as educators and students. (Full story)

21-April-2008

Recent wwPDB Papers

Data deposition and annotation at the Worldwide Protein Data Bank. Shuchismita Dutta, Kyle Burkhardt, Ganesh J. Swaminathan, Takashi Kosada, Kim Henrick, Haruki Nakamura, Helen M. Berman (2008) in Methods in Molecular Biology, vol. 426: Structural Proteomics: High-Throughput Methods (Bostjan Kobe, Mitchell Guss, Thomas Huber, eds.), pp. 81-101.

BioMagResBank (BMRB) as a partner in the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB): new policies affecting biomolecular NMR depositions. John L. Markley, Eldon L. Ulrich, Helen M. Berman, Kim Henrick, Haruki Nakamura, and Hideo Akutsu (2008) J Biomol NMR 40(3): 153-155