Protein Data Bank

File Format
Name	Protein Data Bank
Ontology	Electronic File Formats Scientific Data formats Protein Data Bank
Extension(s)	.pdb, .ent, .brk
PRONOM	fmt/2009

Protein Data Bank (PDB) is a database of proteins and other biological molecules. It is also the name of one of the file formats used in that database. The format stores the structure of a molecule, and related data.

There is also an XML-based variant of PDB format, named PDBML.

Specifications

• current official documentation here
• Old format specifications from 1992: https://web.archive.org/web/20151027211820/http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/file_formats/pdb/pdbguide2.2/PDB_format_1992.pdf
• Version 2.2 specs from 1996: https://web.archive.org/web/20151027211820/https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/file_formats/pdb/pdbguide2.2/pdb_contents_guide2.2.pdf

Sample files

• ftp://ftp.wwpdb.org/pub/pdb/data/structures/divided/pdb/

Links

• Wikipedia: Protein Data Bank (file format)
• Wikipedia: Protein Data Bank
• Worldwide Protein Data Bank website
• RCSB PDB website