Establishment of the System for the Protein Data Bank Archiving in Japan

蛋白质数据库(PDB)是国际上唯一的生物大分子三维结构数据存储库，由美国结构生物信息学研究合作实验室(RCSB)管理。RCSB是由罗格斯大学、美国国家标准与技术研究所和圣地亚哥超级计算机中心组成的联合体。PDB条目通过互联网上的基于网络的工具存放在世界上的三个站点--罗格斯大学、欧洲生物信息学研究所和大阪大学。保存的PDB条目在每个站点进行注释和处理，然后在罗格斯大学合并。日本大阪大学蛋白质研究所于2000年7月1日开始为亚洲和大洋洲的结晶学家和核磁共振光谱学家提供PDB条目的存储和处理中心。自那时以来，截至2003年2月26日，我们共收集和处理了1271个PDB条目。我们使用ADIT(http://pdbdep.protein.osaka-u.ac.jp/)，)，这是一个基于网络的PDB输入工具，与RCSB使用的相同。我们现在有四个PDB注释器。大阪的蛋白质数据库活动现在由蛋白质数据库组织(日本蛋白质数据库，http://pdbj.protein.osaka-u.ac.jp/).

The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is the sole international repository for three-dimensional structure data of biological macromolecules and is managed by the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB), USA.The RCSB is a consortium composed of Rutgers University, the National Instjtute of Standards and Technology, and the San Diego Supercomputer Center. PDB entries are deposited via WEB-based tools over the Internet at three sites, Rutgers University, European Bioinformatics Institute and Osaka University, in the world. The deposited PDB entries are annotated and processed at each site and are then combined at Rutgers University.The Institute for Protein Research, Osaka University, Japan started to serve as the deposition and processing center of PDB entries on July 1, 2000 for crystallographers and NMR spectroscopists in Asian and Oceanic regions. Since then, we have collected and processed a total of 1271 PDB entries as of February 26, 2003. We operate ADIT (http://pdbdep.protein.osaka-u.ac.jp/), a Web-based PDB input tool and the same one used by the RCSB. We have now four PDB annotators. The PDB activities at Osaka is now operated by the organization PDBj (The Protein Data Bank of Japan, http://pdbj.protein.osaka-u.ac.jp/).