[citation needed] The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is the central archive of experimentally solved biomolecular structures.
The goal is to create a central and freely-accessible repository of user-contributed information that will be useful for anyone working with PDB structures.
As such PDBWiki can be considered a part of a wider effort in community-based biological databases curation.
[3][4] PDBWiki was developed as part of the BioWiki initiative, and was entered into the third International Openfree Bioinformation Contents Competition organised by BiO.CC, a biological information website operated by KOBIC.
The Website went offline in January 2014, replaced with a notice redirecting to Proteopedia, a similar wiki-based structural biology database project.