Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB), Rutgers University, Piscataway, NJ 08854-8087, USA. berman@rcsb.rutgers.edu
The Protein Data Bank (PDB; http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/ ) is the single worldwide archive of structural data of biological macromolecules. This paper describes the goals of the PDB, the systems in place for data deposition and access, how to obtain further information, and near-term plans for the future development of the resource.