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The Protein Data Bank and the challenge of structural genomics

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The PDB has created systems for the processing, exchange, query, and distribution of data that will enable many aspects of high throughput structural genomics.

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Figure 1: ADIT, the integrated deposition and processing system, is available at http://pdb.rutgers.edu/adit/.
Figure 2: The integrated PDB Query System, is available at (http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/).

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The PDB is supported by funds from the National Science Foundation, the Office of Biology and Environmental Research at the Department of Energy, and two units of the National Institutes of Health: the National Institute of General Medical Sciences and the National Library of Medicine.

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  1. Department of Chemistry, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, 610 Taylor Road, Piscataway, 08854-8087, New Jersey, USA

    Helen M. Berman, Zukang Feng & John Westbrook

  2. Biotechnology Division, Chemical and Science Technology Laboratory, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, 20850, Maryland, USA

    T. N. Bhat & Gary Gilliland

  3. San Diego Supercomputer Center, University of California, San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, 92093-0537, California, USA

    Philip E. Bourne & Helge Weissig

  4. Department of Pharmacology, University of California San Diego, 9500 Gilman Drive, La Jolla, 92093-0500, California, USA

    Philip E. Bourne

  5. Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology (CARB), National Institute of Standards and Technology and the University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute, 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, 20850, Maryland, USA

    Gary Gilliland

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Berman, H., Bhat, T., Bourne, P. et al. The Protein Data Bank and the challenge of structural genomics. Nat Struct Mol Biol 7 (Suppl 11), 957–959 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1038/80734

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