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The PDB originated as a grassroots effort.In 1971, Walter Hamilton of the Brookhaven National Laboratory agreed to set up the data bank at Brookhaven. Upon Hamilton's death in 1973, Tom Koeztle took over direction of the PDB. In January 1994, Joel Sussman was appointed head of the PDB. In October 1998,[2] the PDB was transferred to the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB); the transfer was completed in June 1999. The new director was Helen M. Berman of Rutgers University (one of the member institutions of the RCSB).[3] In 2003, with the formation of the wwPDB, the PDB became an international organization. The founding members are PDBe (Europe), RCSB(USA), and PDBj (Japan). The BMRB joined in 2006. Each of the four members of wwPDB can act as deposition, data processing and distribution centers for PDB data. The data processing refers to the fact that wwPDB staff review and annotates each submitted entry. The data are then automatically checked for plausibility. (The source code for this validation software has been made available to the public at no charge.
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The "
4hhb
" is the PDB identifier. Each structure published in PDB receives a four-character alphanumeric identifier, its PDB ID. (This cannot be used as an identifier for biomolecules, because often several structures for the same molecule—in different environments or conformations—are contained in PDB with different PDB IDs.)HtrA
H198P/T167V DOUBLE MUTANT OF DEGS-DELTAPDZ PROTEASE
H198P/T167V DOUBLE MUTANT OF DEGS-DELTAPDZ PROTEASE
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LonA
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF BACILLUS SUBTILIS LON N-TEMINAL DOMAIN
CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF BACILLUS SUBTILIS LON N-TEMINAL DOMAIN
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