Worldwide Protein Data Bank
organization that maintains the global open access Protein Data Bank
The Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) is an organization that maintains the archive of macromolecular structure. Its mission is to maintain a single Protein Data Bank Archive of macromolecular structural data that is freely and publicly available to the global community.
The organization has five members:
Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Database (RCSB PDB)
Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe)
Protein Data Bank Japan (PDBj)
Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank (BMRB)
Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB).
The wwPDB was founded in 2003 by RCSB PDB (USA), PDBe (Europe) and PDBj (Japan). In 2006 BMRB (USA) joined the wwPDB. EMDB (UK) joined in 2021.
Each member's site can accept structural data and process the data. The processed data is sent to the "archive keeper". The RCSB PDB presently acts as the "archive keeper". This ensures that there is only one version of the data which is identical for all users. The modified database is then made available to the other wwPDB members, each of whom makes the resulting structure files available through their websites to the public.
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