Biocurators, the backbone of the wwPDB, manage structural biology data deposition, quality, and integrity, and provide integral support to the research community worldwide.
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RCSB PDB is jointly funded by the US National Science Foundation (DBI-1832184), the US Department of Energy (DE-SC0019749) and the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the US National Institutes of Health (R01GM133198). The Protein Data Bank in Europe is supported by the European Molecular Biology Laboratory–European Bioinformatics Institute and Wellcome Trust (104948). Protein Data Bank Japan is supported by the Database Integration Coordination Program from the National Bioscience Database Center (NBDC)–JST (Japan Science and Technology Agency), the Platform Project for Supporting in Drug Discovery and Life Science Research from AMED, and the joint usage program of Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University.
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Young, J.Y., Berrisford, J. & Chen, M. wwPDB biocuration: on the front line of structural biology. Nat Methods 18, 431–432 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41592-021-01137-z
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