Fact Sheet Protein Data Bank – Contacts
January 21, 2004
Notes to editors and news directors: The Protein Data Bank, a publicly accessible collection of nearly 24,000 macromolecules, is administered by the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics with support from the National Science Foundation and seven other federal agencies. A detailed news release announces a new five-year agreement with the RCSB.
Molecule images are available here: http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/04/pr0408_images.htm For additional images, contact the Protein Data Bank by email at info@rcsb.org or visit its web site at www.pdb.org.
Media Sources at Agencies, RCSB, International Partners
For interviews, additional detail and perspective about the Protein Data Bank, journalists may contact the following. They represent the PDB's eight federal funding agencies, its senior personnel, and its international partners.
NSF Program Contact:
Dr. Chris L. Greer cgreer@nsf.gov National Science Foundation BIO/DBI, Rm 615 N 4201 Wilson Boulevard Arlington, VA 22230 Ph: 703-292-8470 Fx: 703-292-9063
Federal Agency Contacts:
Dr. James Cassatt National Institute of General Medical Sciences 45 Center Drive Room 2As.19c Bethesda, MD, 20892 cassattj@nigms.nih.gov 301-594-0300
Dr. Greg Farber National Center for Research Resources 6701 Democracy Blvd. Room 960, MSC 4874 Bethesda, MD 20892-4874 farberg@mail.nih.gov 301-435-0778
Dr. Charles Friedman National Library of Medicine 6705 Rockledge Drive Bethesda, MD 20892-7968 friedmc1@mail.nlm.nih.gov 301-594-4927
Dr. Dan Gallahan National Cancer Institute EPN Room 5004 6130 Executive Blvd. Bethesda, MD 20892 gallahad@dcbdcep1.nci.nih.gov 301-435-5226
Dr. Chris Greer National Science Foundation 4201 Wilson Blvd Arlington, VA 22230 cgreer@nsf.gov 703-292-8470
Dr. Roland Hirsch Department of Energy SC-73/Germantown Building 19901 Germantown Road Germantown, MD 20874 roland.hirsch@science.doe.gov 301-903-9009
Dr. Peter Lyster National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering Democracy/200 Bethesda, MD 20892 lysterp@mail.nih.gov 301-402-1337
Dr. Randy Stewart National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke NSC/2136 Bethesda, MD 20892 stewartr@ninds.nih.gov 301-496-1917
Protein Data Bank Senior Project Personnel Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics:
(Dr. Berman is primary point of contact for the RCSB)
Dr. Helen M. Berman, principal investigator berman@rcsb.rutgers.edu http://rutchem.rutgers.edu/faculty/berman.html Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 610 Taylor Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8087 Ph: (732) 445-4667 Fx: (732) 445-4320
Dr. Philip E. Bourne bourne@sdsc.edu http://www.sdsc.edu/~bourne San Diego Supercomputer Center University of California, San Diego 9500 Gilman Drive La Jolla, CA 92093-0505 Ph : (858) 534-8301 Fx : (858) 822-0873
Judith L. Flippen-Anderson flippen@rcsb.rutgers.edu Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 610 Taylor Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8087 Ph: (732) 445-0103 Fx: (732) 445-4320
Dr. Gary L. Gilliland gary.gilliland@nist.gov University of Maryland Biotechnology Institute Center for Advanced Research in Biotechnology National Institute of Standards and Technology 9600 Gudelsky Drive Rockville, MD 20850 Ph: (301) 738-6262 FX: (301) 738-6255
Dr. John Westbrook jwest@rcsb.rutgers.edu Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey 610 Taylor Road Piscataway, NJ 08854-8087 Ph: (732) 445-4290 Fx: (732) 445-4320
International Partner Institutions Contacts:
Dr. Kim Henrick EMBL Outstation - Hinxton, European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge, CB10 1SD, United Kingdom Ph: +44 (0)1223 494 629 Fx: +44 (0)1223 494 468 Email: henrick@ebi.ac.uk See: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/msd/About.html
Dr. Haruki Nakamura Institute for Protein Research Osaka University 3-2 Yamadaoka, Suita Osaka 565-0871, Japan Email: harukin@protein.osaka-u.ac.jp See: http://www.pdbj.org
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