• A map of the key decision-makers and affiliations
  • How these people overlap across areas
  • The governance structures
  • Funding sources
  • Any emerging players or shifting power dynamics

Info

RCSB PDB is a member organization of wwPDB, meaning the wwPDB oversees the RCSB PDB.

Website

Funding

CSB PDB Core Operations are funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation (DBI-2321666), the US Department of Energy (DE-SC0019749), and the National Cancer InstituteNational Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant R01GM157729. RCSB PDB uses resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a Department of Energy User Facility.

In the past, RCSB PDB was also funded by the National Library of Medicine, the National Center for Research Resources, the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering, and the National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke.

Other funding awards to RCSB PDB by the NSF and to PDBe by the UK Biotechnology and Biological Research Council are jointly supporting development of a Next Generation PDB archive (DBI-2019297, PI: S.K. Burley; BB/V004247/1, PI: Sameer Velankar) and new Mol* features (DBI-2129634, PI: S.K. Burley; BB/W017970/1, PI: Sameer.

NSF (DBI-2321666) Cooperative agreement to Rutgers Performance start: 2024-03-01 Performance end: 2029-02-28 Obligation: 8,955,945.17

DOE (DESC0019749) Performance start: 2019-04-01 Performance end: 2026-03-31 Obligation: 4,915,958.16

NIH (R01GM157729) Performance start: 2024-09-30 Performance end: 2029-07-31 Obligation: 3,203,947.40

Collaborations

wwPDB

The Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) was formed to maintain a single PDB archive of macromolecular structural data that is freely and publicly available to the global community. It consists of organizations that act as deposition, data processing and distribution centers for PDB data. As the US Data Center, RCSB PDB biocurates structures submitted from the Americas.

PDB-IHM

PDB-IHM is a system for archiving structural models obtained using integrative or hybrid modeling, managed by the wwPDB and funded by the NSF, DOE, and NIH.

EMDataResource

EMDataResource provides access to 3DEM density maps and metadata, news, events, software tools, data standards, and validation methods.

KBase

KBase enables users to analyze, share, and collaborate using data and tools designed to help build increasingly realistic models for biological function. KBase utilizes RCSB PDB APIs to provide users with access to PDB data.

Nucleic Acid Knowledgebase

NAKB contains information about experimentally-determined nucleic acids and complex assemblies.

people

Leaders

NameTitleAffiliation
Stephen K. BurleyDirectorRutgers
Dr. Andrej SaliUCSF Site HeadUCSF
Helen M. BermanDirector EmeritaRutgers

Operations Team

NameTitleAffiliation
Dr. Jose M. DuarteScientific Software Lead and UCSD ManagerUCSD
Dr. Zukang FengPrincipal Scientific Software DeveloperRutgers
Vladimir GuranovicSenior Infrastructure EngineerRutgers
Jeremy HenryDevOps EngineerRutgers
Dr. Yuhe LiangBiocuration Lead DeputyRutgers
Dr. Ezra PeisachScientific Software Developer, PDBx mmCIF Dictionary ManagerRutgers
Dr. Irina PersikovaBiocuration Lead DeputyRutgers
David RaymondIT Infrastructure LeadRutgers
Dr. Yana RoseScientific Software Developer & Data ArchitectRutgers
Dr. Jasmine Y. YoungRCSB PDB Biocuration Team Lead & wwPDB Global Project LeadRutgers
Christine ZardeckiAssociate DirectorRutgers

Ambassadors — Rutgers

NameTitleAffiliation
Dr. Alison BiesterScientific ResearcherRutgers
Ronald BrownSenior Software DeveloperRutgers
Vivek Reddy ChithariDatabase ManagerRutgers
Dr. Gregg V. CrichlowBiocuratorRutgers
Dr. Justin W. FlattBiocuratorRutgers
Dr. Sutapa GhoshBiocuratorRutgers
Dr. Rachel Kramer GreenScientific Support & Customer Service LeadRutgers
Dr. Brian P. HudsonBiocuratorRutgers
Dr. Janet IwasaScientific Outreach LeadRutgers
Michael JoyUnit Computing ManagerRutgers
Dr. Jason T. Kaelber3DEM AdvisorRutgers
Dr. Catherine L. LawsonEMDR/NAKB AdvisorRutgers
Dr. Dennis W. PiehlScientific Software Developer and FAIR ManagerRutgers
Aditya PingaleJunior DevOps EngineerRutgers
Dr. Monica SekharanBiocuratorRutgers
Dr. Chenghua ShaoScientific Software Developer/KPI EvaluatorRutgers
Dr. James SmithScientific Software DeveloperRutgers
Michael TrumbullHigh Performance Computing Software EngineerRutgers
Dr. Brinda VallatScientific Software Developer, PDB-IHM Representative, ModelCIF ManagerRutgers
Maria VoigtSenior Outreach Coordinator/Web DeveloperRutgers
Shamara WhetstoneAdministrative Coordinator/Executive Assistant to Dr. BurleyRutgers
Dr. Tongji XingScientific Software DeveloperRutgers

Ambassadors — UCSD

NameTitleAffiliation
Charmi BhikadiyaScientific Software DeveloperUCSD
Chunxiao BiSenior Software DeveloperUCSD
Dr. Joan SeguraScientific Software DeveloperUCSD

Ambassadors — UCSF

NameTitleAffiliation
Dr. Jared SagendorfScientific Software DeveloperUCSF
Dr. Arthur ZalevskyScientific Software DeveloperUCSF