Federal science agencies have renewed and increased funding for a world-renowned digital archive of protein structures housed by Rutgers University-New Brunswick, an open-access data resource that has enabled research in everything from agriculture to zoology and has laid the groundwork for Nobel Prize-winning discoveries.
Federal funds totaling $49.4 million will underwrite efforts at the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) Protein Data Bank through 2028, Rutgers officials said. Specifically, the data bank will be supported by grants from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Energy, the National Cancer Institute, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and the National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health.
The RCSB Protein Data Bank is a multi-institutional collaboration between Rutgers, the University of California San Diego and the University of California San Francisco. Previous federal funding for RCSB Protein Data Bank core operations for 2019-2023 totaled $34.3 million. To read the full story.