Protein structure database
In biology, a protein structure database is a database that is modeled around the various experimentally determined protein structures. The aim of most protein structure databases is to organize and annotate protein structures, providing the biological community access to the experimental data in a useful way.
The Protein Data Bank
The Protein Data Bank (PDB) was established in 1971 as the central archive of all experimentally determined protein structure data. Today the PDB is maintained by an international consortia collectively known as the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB). The mission of the wwPDB is to maintain a single archive of macromolecular structural data that is freely and publicly available to the global community.
Protein structure databases
Because the PDB releases data into the public domain, the data has been used in various other protein structure databases.
Examples of protein structure databases include;