About the NDB
NDB Members
Co-founders:
Helen M. Berman, Ph.D. Rutgers University
Wilma K. Olson, Ph.D. Rutgers University
David Beveridge, Ph.D. Wesleyan University
Current Collaborators:
Neocles B. Leontis, Ph.D. Bowling Green state University
Craig L. Zirbel, Ph.D. Bowling Green state University
Current NDB members:
Catherine L. Lawson, Ph.D. Rutgers University, Director
Helen M. Berman, Ph.D. Rutgers University
Brinda Vallat, Ph.D. Rutgers University
Li Chen, Rutgers University
The Goal
The goal of the Nucleic Acid Database Project (NDB) is to archive 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.
The NDB Project is funded by the National Institutes of Health and has been funded by National Science Foundation and the Department of Energy in the past.
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.
The NDB follows the dictionaries and formats used by the Worldwide Protein Data Bank. Please see www.wwpdb.org for format announcements and documentation.
Reference
Researchers who wish to use the NDB should use the following references:
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.
Buvaneswari Coimbatore Narayanan, John Westbrook, Saheli Ghosh, Anton I. Petrov, Blake Sweeney, Craig L. Zirbel, Neocles B. Leontis and Helen M. Berman. (2014) The Nucleic Acid Database: new features and capabilities. Nucleic Acids Res.42, D114-22.