Message from RCSB PDB

PDB Supports the Goals of the NSF

There are several connections between the PDB and theU.S. National Science Foundation 2022–2026 Strategic Plan:
Empower

• RCSB PDB is committed to training, supporting, and empowering a community of researchers and future scientists

Discover

• RCSB.org tools drive research across all NSF directorates, illuminating biology from Agriculture to Zoology
• PDB structures aid understanding societal challenges, such as the physics of aging
• CryoEM resolution revolution and predicted protein structures are advancing the frontiers of research
• RCSB PDB accelerates data-intensive research through advanced cyberinfrastructure
• Structural biology provides foundational knowledge into the rules that make life work

Impact

• RCSB PDB safeguards structural biology data generated with NSF funding of more than half a billion dollars worth of NSF data over the lifetime of the PDB
• PDB structures have contributed data to >1 million published research papers

Visit NSF.gov to learn how NSF's decades-long support for the open-access database has facilitated pioneering scientific advancements and medical treatments.