File Format Documentation

• PDBx/mmCIF Dictionary
• PDBML/XML Schema
• About Legacy PDB File Format


• PDBx/mmCIF User Guide
• Legacy PDB File Format Guide – Version 3.30 (November 21, 2012) (November 21, 2012)
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• Previous versions of Legacy PDB File Format Guide
  • PDB File Format - Contents Guide Version 3.20 (September 15, 2008)
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  • PDB File Format - Contents Guide Version 3.1 (July 19, 2007)
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  • PDB File Format - Contents Guide Version 3.0 (December 01, 2006)
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  • PDB File Format - Contents Guide Version 2.3 (July 09, 1998)
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  • The original Protein Data Bank Contents Guides were developed by the Protein Data Bank team at Brookhaven National laboratory. Historical copies are available.
    PDF - 1972 PDF - 1976 PDF - 1978 PDF - 1985 PDF - 1989 PDF - 1992
    PDF - Jan 1996 PDF - Dec 1996

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