RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THE PRESENTATION OF NMR STRUCTURES OF PROTEINS AND NUCLEIC-ACIDS - IUPAC-IUBMB-IUPAB INTER-UNION TASK GROUP ON THE STANDARDIZATION OF DATA-BASES OF PROTEIN AND NUCLEIC-ACID STRUCTURES DETERMINED BY NMR-SPECTROSCOPY

The recommendations presented here are designed to support easier comm unication of NMR data and NMR structures of proteins and nucleic acids through unified nomenclature and reporting standards. Much of this do cument pertains to the reporting of data in journal articles; however, in the interest of the future development of structural biology, it i s desirable that the bulk of the reported information be stored in com puter-accessible form and be freely accessible to the scientific commu nity in standardized formats for data exchange. These recommendations stem from an IUPAC-IUBMB-IUPAB inter-union venture with the direct inv olvement of ICSU and CODATA. The Task Group has reviewed previous form al recommendations and has extended them in the light of more recent d evelopments in the field of biomolecular NMR spectroscopy. Drafts of t he recommendations presented here have been examined critically by mor e than 50 specialists in the field and have gone through two rounds of extensive modification to incorporate suggestions and criticisms.