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J Westbrook, Z. Feng, Sanjay Jain, Talapady N. Bhat, N Thanki, Veerasamy Ravichandran, G L. Gilliland, W Bluhm, H Weissig, D S. Greer, P E. Bourne, H M. Berman
Abstract
The Protein Data Bank (PDB; http://www.pdb.org/) is the single worldwide archive of structural data of biological macromolecules. This paper describes the progress that has been made in validating all data in the PDB archive and in releasing a uniform archive for the community. We have now produced a collection of mmCIF data files for the PDB archive (ftp://beta.rcsb.org/pub/pdb/uniformity/data/mmCIF/). A utility application that converts the mmCIF data files to the PDB format (called CIFTr) has also been released to provide support for existing software.
Westbrook, J.
, Feng, Z.
, Jain, S.
, Bhat, T.
, Thanki, N.
, Ravichandran, V.
, Gilliland, G.
, Bluhm, W.
, Weissig, H.
, Greer, D.
, Bourne, P.
and Berman, H.
(2002),
The Protein Data Bank: Unifying the Archive, Nucleic Acids Research
(Accessed October 8, 2025)