Citing Ligand Expo:

Please reference our prior publication describing Ligand Depot:

Ligand Depot: a data warehouse for ligands bound to macromolecules.
Bioinformatics. 2004 Sep 1;20(13):2153-5.
Feng Z, Chen L, Maddula H, Akcan O, Oughtred R, Berman HM, Westbrook J.
PubMed:   15059838

Acknowledgements:

Ligand Expo is being developed at Rutgers University as part of the RCSB PDB project. The RCSB PDB is managed by two members of the RCSB: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey and the San Diego Supercomputer Center and Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego. It is supported by funds from the National Science Foundation (NSF), the National Institute of General Medical Sciences (NIGMS), the Office of Science, Department of Energy (DOE), the National Library of Medicine (NLM), the National Cancer Institute (NCI), the National Center for Research Resources (NCRR), the National Institute of Biomedical Imaging and Bioengineering (NIBIB), National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke (NINDS), and the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (NIDDK).

The wwPDB Chemical Component Dictionary is a primary source of information for Ligand Expo. This dictionary is maintained by the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB).

H.M. Berman, K. Henrick, H. Nakamura (2003): Announcing the worldwide Protein Data Bank. Nature Structural Biology 10 (12), p. 980

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