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The PDB was announced on October 20, 1971 in Crystallography: Protein Data Bank Nature New Biology 233: 223 (1971) doi:10.1038/newbio233223b0.

Fifty years later, the PDB archive contains >175,000 structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies that helps students and researchers understand all aspects of biomedicine and agriculture, from protein synthesis to health and disease. It is managed by the Worldwide PDB (wwPDB) organization that ensures that the PDB is freely and publicly available to the global community.

wwPDB will celebrate this golden anniversary with symposia and events throughout 2021.

The inaugural event will be held May 4-5, 2021. This two-day virtual event will highlight the science preserved within and enabled by the resource over the past 50 years.

This event will include presentations from speakers from around the world who have made tremendous advances in structural biology and bioinformatics:

	Eddy Arnold Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey Using HIV-1 reverse transcriptase structures to guide anti-AIDS drug discovery
	Helen M. Berman Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey University of Southern California The evolution of the Protein Data Bank as a community resource
	Thomas L. Blundell University of Cambridge A personal history of five decades of structural biology and the PDB: From the X-ray structure of 2-Zinc insulin hexamer in 1970 to Cryo-EM structures of DNA-PK from DNA repair in 2020
	Alexandre M. J. J. Bonvin Utrecht University Solving 3D puzzles by integrative modelling using PDB structures
	Stephen K. Burley Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey University of California, San Diego Impact of structural biologists and fifty years of Protein Data Bank operations on drug discovery and development
	Wah Chiu Stanford University Cryo-EM of biomolecules at Ångström resolutions
	Johann Deisenhoferu University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 50 years of PDB — from crazy idea to treasure
	Juli Feigon University of California, Los Angeles Structural biology of telomerase
	Angela M. Gronenborn University of Pittsburgh Integrated BioNMR — getting by with a little help from my friends
	Jennifer L. Martin University of Wollongong Science, crystallography, reflections: A journey with the PDB over 35 years
	Stephen L. Mayo California Institute of Technology Antibody small molecule conjugates with computationally designed target binding synergy
	Zihe Rao ShanghaiTech University Tsinghua University Structural insight into SARS-CoV-2 replication and transcription complex (RTC)
	Hao Wu Harvard Medical School Boston Children's Hospital "Speck"tacular inflammasomes: structures of supramolecular complexes in innate immunity

Visit ASBMB Today for a behind-the-scenes look at the inaugural event w/PDB co-founder Helen Berman.

Helen Berman at ASBMB

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Snapshot: April 1, 2020
176,247	Released atomic coordinate entries
Molecule Type
154,374	Proteins, peptides, and viruses
3,584	Nucleic acids
9,188	Protein/nucleic acid complexes
8,896	Protein/Oligosaccharide
22	Oligosaccharide (only)
183	Other
Experimental Technique
155,286	X-ray
13,336	NMR
7,335	Electron Microscopy
184	Multi Method
69	Neutron Diffraction
37	Other

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Message from RCSB PDB

Celebrating 50 Years of the PDB