PDBE-KB: A community-driven resource for structural and functional annotations

Mihaly Varadi, John Berrisford, Mandar Deshpande, Sreenath S. Nair, Aleksandras Gutmanas, David Armstrong, Lukas Pravda, Bissan Al-Lazikani, Stephen Anyango, Geoffrey J. Barton, Karel Berka, Tom Blundell, Neera Borkakoti, Jose Dana, Sayoni Das, Sucharita Dey, Patrizio Di Micco, Franca Fraternali, Toby Gibson, Manuela Helmer-CitterichDavid Hoksza, Liang Chin Huang, Rishabh Jain, Harry Jubb, Christos Kannas, Natarajan Kannan, Jaroslav Koca, Radoslav Krivak, Manjeet Kumar, Emmanuel D. Levy, F. Madeira, M. S. Madhusudhan, Henry J. Martell, Stuart MacGowan, Jake E. McGreig, Saqib Mir, Abhik Mukhopadhyay, Luca Parca, Typhaine Paysan-Lafosse, Leandro Radusky, Antonio Ribeiro, Luis Serrano, Ian Sillitoe, Gulzar Singh, Petr Skoda, Radka Svobodova, Jonathan Tyzack, Alfonso Valencia, Eloy Villasclaras Fernandez, Wim Vranken, Mark Wass, Janet Thornton, Michael Sternberg, Christine Orengo, Sameer Velankar

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Abstract

The Protein Data Bank in Europe-Knowledge Base (PDBe-KB, https://pdbe-kb.org) is a community-driven, collaborative resource for literature-derived, manually curated and computationally predicted structural and functional annotations of macromolecular structure data, contained in the Protein Data Bank (PDB). The goal of PDBe-KB is two-fold: (i) to increase the visibility and reduce the fragmentation of annotations contributed by specialist data resources, and to make these data more findable, accessible, interoperable and reusable (FAIR) and (ii) to place macromolecular structure data in their biological context, thus facilitating their use by the broader scientific community in fundamental and applied research. Here, we describe the guidelines of this collaborative effort, the current status of contributed data, and the PDBe-KB infrastructure, which includes the data exchange format, the deposition system for added value annotations, the distributable database containing the assembled data, and programmatic access endpoints. We also describe a series of novel web-pages––the PDBe-KB aggregated views of structure data––which combine information on macromolecular structures from many PDB entries. We have recently released the first set of pages in this series, which provide an overview of available structural and functional information for a protein of interest, referenced by a UniProtKB accession.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Pages (from-to)D344-D353
JournalNucleic acids research
Volume48
DOIs
StatePublished - 2020
Externally publishedYes

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Genetics

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