Protein Data Bank: Difference between revisions

The [http://www.wwpdb.org World Wide Protein Data Bank] (wwPDB)<ref>PMID: 14634627</ref><ref>PMID: 17142228</ref> is the internationally recognized sole repository<ref>PMID: 30357364</ref> of all published, empirically-determined atomic resolution macromolecular three-dimensional (3D) structure data. Founded in 1971 by Drs. Edgar Meyer and Walter Hamilton at [http://www.bnl.gov Brookhaven National Laboratory]<REF>PMID:875032</REF><REF>PMID:10089483</REF>, management of the Protein Data Bank was headed by Tom Koestle until 1994 and then by [http://www.weizmann.ac.il/~joel Joel L. Sussman] till 1999, when it was transferred to members of the [http://home.rcsb.org/ Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB)]. RCSB is managed at Rutgers University and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. It was directed by [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_M._Berman Helen M. Berman] until July 2014, when Stephen K. Burley took over the directorship<ref>[http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/general_information/news_publications/newsletters/2014q4/home.html#one2 Leadership Transition], RCSB Newsletter, Fall 2014.</ref>. In 2008, the PDB has three official branches: the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB, USA), the European Bioinformatics Institute (PDBe, UK), and the Protein Data Bank Japan (PDBj, Osaka).