Director of the NDB:
Dr. Helen M. Berman

Co-founders and collaborators:
Dr. Wilma K. Olson, Rutgers University
Dr. David Beveridge, Wesleyan University

Liasons for NDB sites:
Dr. Stephen Neidle - Institute of Cancer Research (UK)
Dr. Masashi Suzuki - Structural Biology Centre at AIST-NIBH (Japan)
Dr. Philip E. Bourne - San Diego Supercomputer Center (US)

Current NDB members:
Dr. Zukang Feng
Dr. John Westbrook
Dr. Huanwang Yang
Dr. Jasmine Young
Christine Zardecki

The Goal
The goal of the Nucleic Acid Database Project (NDB) is to assemble and distribute structural information about nucleic acids. The NDB was founded in 1992 by Helen M. Berman, Rutgers University, Wilma K. Olson, Rutgers University, and David Beveridge, Wesleyan University. In addition, Anke Gelblin, Tamas Demeny, S. -H. Hsieh, A.R. Srinivasan, and Bohdan Schneider were members of the original NDB project team.

The NDB Project is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy

The NDB maintains the mmCIF Web site. mmCIF (macromolecular Crystallographic Information File) is the IUCr-approved data representation for macromolecular structures.

References
Researchers who wish to use the NDB should use the following reference:

Helen M. Berman, Wilma K. Olson, David L. Beveridge, John Westbrook, Anke Gelbin, Tamas Demeny,
S.-H. Hsieh, A. R. Srinivasan, and Bohdan Schneider. (1992) The Nucleic Acid Database: A Comprehensive Relational Database of Three-Dimensional Structures of Nucleic Acids. Biophys. J., 63, 751-759.

A list of papers from the NDB Project supported in total or in part by the NDB grants is available.

Questions, Comments, Queries
If you have any questions or comments about the NDB Project, or if you have a special query for the database, please send mail to ndbadmin@ndbserver.rutgers.edu.

Address
The Nucleic Acid Database is located in the Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology at Rutgers University in Piscataway, NJ. Directions are available.

Phone: 732.445.0103
Fax: 732.445.4320

Address:
The Nucleic Acid Database
Rutgers, the State University
Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology
Wright-Reiman Laboratories
610 Taylor Road
Piscataway, NJ 08854-8087

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