wwPDB: Worldwide Protein Data Bank

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.

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

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Vision and Mission

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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Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank

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.

Electron Microscopy Data Bank

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.

Protein Data Bank in Europe

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.

Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank

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.

Protein Data Bank Japan

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.

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Cite wwPDB:

Nature Structural Biology 10, 980 (2003)
doi: 10.1038/nsb1203-980

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Nucleic Acids Research (2019), doi: 10.1093/nar/gky949

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05/06/2025

Poster Prize Awarded at ASBMB

The wwPDB Foundation made an award to Maria Ahmed (University of Rochester) for Incorporation of methionine sulfoxides into nascent proteins during translation.

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Poster Prize Awarded at The Biophysical Society Meeting

The wwPDB Foundation made awards to Hsiang-Ling Huang (The Ohio State University College of Medicine) for Mechanisms of dysferlin-mediated membrane repair in health and disease.

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