2018 年 58 巻 2 号 p. 071-077
These days, “Data Science” becomes a new trend of science by accumulation and analysis of scientific big data. This data science is considered to provide a very useful approach for, in particular, biological science because of its very diversed characters. Here, we point out the essential issues in biological data science, and how they could be solved in the PDB (Protein Data Bank) archive, which the authors manage as PDBj (PDB Japan), one of the wwPDB (world wide PDB) members with the global cooperation.