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  1. PDB entries are assigned a PDB ID that corresponds to a Digital Object Identifier (DOI) and are frequently described in a publication by the structure authors.

    DOIs for PDB structures follow the format: https://doi.org/10.2210/pdbXXXX/pdb, where XXXX is replaced with the PDB ID (e.g., https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb4hhb/pdb). DOI citations should include the entry authors, structure title, deposition year, and DOI.

    A PDB structure with a corresponding publication should be referenced by PDB ID and cited using both the corresponding DOI citation and publication.

    Example: PDB ID: 1ema

    DOI Citation: M. Ormo, S.J. Remington, Green fluorescent protein from Aequorea victoria (1996) https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb1ema/pdb

    Literature Citation: M. Ormo, A.B. Cubitt, K. Kallio, L.A. Gross, R.Y. Tsien,?S.J. Remington, Crystal structure of the Aequorea victoria green fluorescent protein (1996) Science 273: 1392-1395 https://doi.org/10.1126/science.273.5280.1392

    A PDB structure without a corresponding publication should be referenced by PDB ID and the DOI citation.

    Example: PDB ID: 1ci0
    DOI Citation: W. Shi, D.A. Ostrov, S.E. Gerchman, V. Graziano, H. Kycia, B. Studier, S.C. Almo, S.K. Burley, New York SGX Research Center for Structural Genomics (NYSGXRC), PNP Oxidase from Saccharomyces cerevisiae (1999) https://doi.org/10.2210/pdb1ci0/pdb

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    H.M. Berman, K. Henrick, H. Nakamura Announcing the worldwide Protein Data Bank (2003) Nature Structural Biology 10:980 https://doi.org/10.1038/nsb1203-980.

  4. Images from and/or of Structure Summary and Group Summary pages and tabs (including screenshots) should cite the RCSB PDB and PDB entry:
    Image from the RCSB PDB (RCSB.org) of PDB ID 1BNA (H.R. Drew, R.M. Wing, T. Takano, C. Broka, S. Tanaka, K. Itakura, R.E.Dickerson, Structure of a B-DNA dodecamer: conformation and dynamics (1981) Proc.Natl.Acad.Sci.USA 78: 2179-2183).

  5. Images created using PDB data and other software should cite the PDB ID, the corresponding structure publication, and the molecular graphics program.

    (K. Luger, A.W. Mader, R.K. Richmond, D.F. Sargent, T.J. Richmond Crystal structure of the core particle at 2.8? resolution (1997) Nature 389: 251-260) created with NGL (A.S. Rose, A.R. Bradley, Y. Valasatava, J.D. Duarte, A. Prli?, P.W. Rose NGL viewer: web-based molecular graphics for large complexes (2018) Bioinformatics 34: 3755¨C3758)

  6. Images created using Mol* should cite the PDB ID, the corresponding structure publication, Mol* (D. Sehnal, S. Bittrich, M. Deshpande, R. Svobodov¨˘, K. Berka, V. Bazgier, S. Velankar, S.K. Burley, J. Ko?a, A.S. Rose (2021) Mol* Viewer: modern web app for 3D visualization and analysis of large biomolecular structures (2021) Nucleic Acids Research 49:W431-W437 https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gkab314), and RCSB PDB.

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    The reference for the Molecule of the Month series is:
    The RCSB PDB "Molecule of the Month": Insights from 20 years of the Molecule of the Month (2020) BAMBed 48: 350-355 https://doi.org/10.1002/bmb.21360

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    F.C. Bernstein, T.F. Koetzle, G.J.B. Williams, E.F. Meyer Jr., M.D. Brice, J.R. Rodgers, O. Kennard, T. Shimanouchi, M. Tasumi, The Protein Data Bank: a computer-based archival file for macromolecular structures (1977) J. Mol. Biol. 112: 535-542.

  12. The PDB archive was first announced in: Protein Data Bank (1971) Nature New Biology 233:223.


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