PDB Improvement Starts with Data Deposition

摘要

A small software flaw recently triggered the retraction of a series of high-profile x-ray structures ["Retraction," Letters, 22 Dec. 2006, p. 1875; (1, 2)]. Although in this case, the inaccurate protein structures were wrong and were promptly retracted, the Protein Data Bank (PDB) (3) still holds other structures that either are entirely wrong or are not correct enough to be used for the design or explanation of biological experiments.