Berman Helen M, Vallat Brinda, Lawson Catherine L
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, Piscataway, NJ 08854, USA.
Department of Biological Sciences and Bridge Institute, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, USA.
IUCrJ. 2020 May 28;7(Pt 4):630-638. doi: 10.1107/S205225252000562X. eCollection 2020 Jul 1.
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) has grown from a small data resource for crystallographers to a worldwide resource serving structural biology. The history of the growth of the PDB and the role that the community has played in developing standards and policies are described. This article also illustrates how other biophysics communities are collaborating with the worldwide PDB to create a network of interoperating data resources. This network will expand the capabilities of structural biology and enable the determination and archiving of increasingly complex structures.
蛋白质数据库（PDB）已从晶体学家的小型数据资源发展成为服务于结构生物学的全球资源。本文描述了PDB的发展历程以及该社区在制定标准和政策方面所发挥的作用。本文还阐述了其他生物物理学社区如何与全球PDB合作，以创建一个可互操作的数据资源网络。这个网络将扩展结构生物学的能力，并能够确定和存档日益复杂的结构。
