Celebrating 50 Years of the Protein Data Bank Archive
In 2021, RCSB PDB and the wwPDB celebrated the 50th Anniversary of the PDB with symposia, materials, and more.
Meetings | Journal Collections and Articles | Historical Background | Celebration Materials
Meetings
- PDB50 Meetings and Symposia hosted by the wwPDB Foundation
- Inaugural event: A special symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Protein Data Bank (May 4-5, 2021; watch presentation videos).
- Transactions Symposium 2021: Function Follows Form: Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Protein Data Bank (July 30-31, 2021).
This virtual event is part of the Annual Meeting of the American Crystallographic Association. - Understanding Enzyme Function in 3D: Celebrating 50 Years of the Protein Data Bank (Aug 25, 2021); part of the Fall ACS Meeting.
- Biophysical Society Celebrates 50 Years of the PDB (October 6, 2021; watch presentation videos)
- Bringing Molecular Structure to Life: 50 Years of the PDB (October 20-22, 2021) EMBL Conference.
- Celebrating PDB Contributions from Rutgers University Structural Biologists (November 2, virtual)
- Truth Sometimes Triumphs: A History of Structural Enzymology Rutgers Institute of Quantitative Biomedicine PDB50 Lecture by Greg Petsco (Harvard Medical School and Brigham and Women’s Hospital) hosted on November 4, 2021.
- Protein Data Bank at 50: Accessing, Understanding, and Assessing PDB Data hosted by the Royal Society of Chemistry Chemical Information and Computer Applications Group (November 16 and November 18; watch presentation videos of day 1 and day 2 )
- 50 Years of the PDB and the Frontier of Structural Biology in Asia: A satellite symposium (Nov 24) of the Biophysical Society of Japan (Nov 25-27, 2021; poster prizes awarded)
- 2021 PDB50 Calendar and Virtual Meeting Backgrounds
Journal Collections and Articles
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How the PDB changed biology
Issue contains reviews that celebrates scientific areas profoundly touched by the creation of the PDB
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The PDB in JBC
Collection of Journal of Biological Chemistry publications that highlights some seminal PDB structures
Access the PDB structures included in this collection
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Nature Methods
Vol 18, Issue 5, May 2021
Collection: PDB 50th Anniversary: celebrating the future of structural biology
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Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Vol 28, Issue 5, May 2021
Collection: PDB 50th Anniversary: celebrating the future of structural biology
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ASBMB Today
Vol 20, Issue 3, March 2021
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Rutgers Today
October 19, 2021
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SDSC
November 1, 2021
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NIGMS Biomedical Beat Blog
November 10, 2021
Historical Background
Structural biology methods and milestones that helped to build and grow the PDB archive
- Historical Overview of the PDB
- Molecule of the Month on PDB Pioneers (October 2011): a look at the dozen historic structures that set the foundation for the PDB archive
- Structural Biology and Nobel Prizes
- Protein Data Bank and 50 years of Molecular Structures (PDF)
- PDB Users and 50 Years of Community Building
Celebration Materials
- PDB50 at wwPDB.org
- PDB50 logos: long (PNG | EPS) compact (PNG | EPS)
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PDB50 Game: This gives players the opportunity to explore the process of structure discovery.
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Video: Celebrating in Virtual Reality
Exploration of groundbreaking PDB structures for structure-based drug design.