| Policy issues |
Definition of mandatory items and data for deposition, e.g. structure-factor amplitudes |
| Archive releases |
Weekly updates exchanged between all sites; simultaneous release of identical copies of the archive |
| Validation standards |
Validation task forces provide recommendations that the wwPDB partners implement |
| Format specifications |
PDBx/mmCIF, PDBML, PDB |
| Chemical component descriptions |
Detailed description of new chemical components, including ideal coordinates |
| Deposition and annotation procedures |
Agreement on common procedures to describe, for example, quaternary structure or Ramachandran outliers, or the use of reference resources, e.g. for sequence annotation |
| Archive quality and remediation |
Regular review of quality, consistency and integrity issues leading to large-scale archive-wide remediation |
| Journal interactions |
Recommendations with respect to wording of deposition and release requirements; coordination of publications and data release |
