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
How the PDB changed biology
Issue contains reviews that celebrates scientific areas profoundly touched by the creation of the PDB
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
Nature Methods
Vol 18, Issue 5, May 2021
Collection: PDB 50th Anniversary: celebrating the future of structural biology
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
Vol 28, Issue 5, May 2021
Collection: PDB 50th Anniversary: celebrating the future of structural biology
ASBMB Today
Vol 20, Issue 3, March 2021
Rutgers Today
October 19, 2021
SDSC
November 1, 2021
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)
PDB50 Game: This gives players the opportunity to explore the process of structure discovery.
Video: Celebrating in Virtual Reality
Exploration of groundbreaking PDB structures for structure-based drug design.
