PDBML is one of the canonical XML formats converted from the PDBx/mmCIF format into XML. This format was first introduced in the following article:
PDBML: the representation of archival macromolecular structure data in
XML.
Westbrook J, Ito N, Nakamura H, Henrick K, Berman HM.
Bioinformatics, 2005, 21(7):988-992. PubMed:15509603 full
text
The schema file to define PDBML data description rule is available from following URL:
And can also be viewed using our interactive XML viewer.
For the details of each data items (categories), refer the PDBx/mmCIF dictionary.
The file name of a PDBML file is pdbid.xml. For example, 1a00.xml, 1gof.xml, etc. These files are also called ”all” files since it contains all data.
There are variants of PDBML files called ”noatom” and ”extatom” files which are described in the following pages: