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Berman, Helen M. |
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Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey |
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Biophysics and Computational Biology |
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A key focus of Helen Berman’s work has been the creation of resources containing information about biological macromolecules. This has required the careful development of ontologies, systems, and methods for the collection, validation, distribution, and analysis of these data. She played a key role in founding the Protein Data Bank in 1971 and was the Director of the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) Protein Data Bank (PDB) from 1998 to 2014. She was a founding member of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) in 2003. She was a founder of the Nucleic Acid Database and was a leader int the development of a novel infrastructure for archiving integrative structural models. Her work on structural databases has been informed by structural and computational studies of nucleic acid containing molecules and collagen. Those studies highlighted the key role that water plays in structure and recognition. |
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