Protein Data Bank China, ShanghaiTech University and National Facility for Protein Science in Shanghai, Shanghai, People's Republic of China.
Protein Data Bank in Europe, European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, United Kingdom.
Acta Crystallogr D Struct Biol. 2023 Sep 1;79(Pt 9):792-795. doi: 10.1107/S2059798323006381. Epub 2023 Aug 10.
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is the single global archive of atomic-level, three-dimensional structures of biological macromolecules experimentally determined by macromolecular crystallography, nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy or three-dimensional cryo-electron microscopy. The PDB is growing continuously, with a recent rapid increase in new structure depositions from Asia. In 2022, the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB; https://www.wwpdb.org/) partners welcomed Protein Data Bank China (PDBc; https://www.pdbc.org.cn) to the organization as an Associate Member. PDBc is based in the National Facility for Protein Science in Shanghai which is associated with the Shanghai Advanced Research Institute of Chinese Academy of Sciences, the Shanghai Institute for Advanced Immunochemical Studies and the iHuman Institute of ShanghaiTech University. This letter describes the history of the wwPDB, recently established mechanisms for adding new wwPDB data centers and the processes developed to bring PDBc into the partnership.
蛋白质数据库（PDB）是一个全球唯一的生物大分子原子水平、三维结构的实验数据库，这些结构是通过大分子晶体学、核磁共振波谱学或三维冷冻电子显微镜技术确定的。PDB 在不断增长，最近来自亚洲的新结构数据呈快速增长趋势。2022 年，全球蛋白质数据银行（wwPDB；https://www.wwpdb.org/）合作伙伴组织欢迎中国蛋白质数据库（PDBc；https://www.pdbc.org.cn）作为准成员加入该组织。PDBc 位于上海的国家蛋白质科学设施，与中国科学院上海高等研究院、上海免疫化学研究所和上海科技大学的 iHuman 研究所相关联。这封信描述了 wwPDB 的历史、最近建立的添加新 wwPDB 数据中心的机制以及将 PDBc 纳入合作关系的发展过程。
