BMRB

Biological Magnetic Resonance Data Bank


A Repository for Data from NMR Spectroscopy on Proteins, Peptides, Nucleic Acids, and other Biomolecules
Member of WWPDB

BMRB funding crisis and support for US biological database infrastructure

A white paper on the future funding of the BMRB and other biological database infrastructure in the United States and related articles have been published in the latest issue of Nature Structural & Molecular Biology:

Editorial: The BMRB matters
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
19: 853 (2012)
doi:10.1038/nsmb.2387
Community Comments: In support of the BMRB
Nature Structural & Molecular Biology
19: 854-860 (2012)
doi:10.1038/nsmb.2371
Databases fight funding cuts
Nature
489, 19 (06 September 2012)
doi:10.1038/489019a

Comments on these articles and the funding crisis facing other biological database resources also have been published:

Databases and Money, Derek Lowe,
pipeline.corante.com,
posted September 6, 2012
Funding Cuts Threaten Big Data, Jef Akst,
The Scientist,
posted September 5, 2012