RCSB PDB Newsletter | Winter 2008

Published quarterly by the Research Collaboratory
for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank

Winter 2008
Number 36

NEWSLETTER

Contents

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	Data Deposition • 2007 Deposition Statistics • ADIT _Beta Available for Testing • New Release of pdb_extract Deposition Tool • Announcement: Experimental Data Will Be Required for Depositions Beginning February 1, 2008 • Structure Deposition Checklist Data Query, Reporting and Access • Website Statistics • Automated Downloads of PDB Data • RCSB PDB Focus: Sorting Search Results • Positions Available at the RCSB PDB Outreach and Education • Web Survey: RCSB PDB Educational Resources • Poster Prize Awarded at AsCA • Flyers Available in Print and Online • 2008 Calendar Now Available • RCSB PDB Paper Cited More Than 5,000 Times Education Corner Fruit-flavored Folding by Teresa MacDonald, Director of Education at The University of Kansas Natural History Museum PDB Community Focus Protein Modeling at the New Jersey Science Olympiad Regionals RCSB PDB PARTNERS, MANAGEMENT, AND STATEMENT OF SUPPORT

Message from the RCSB PDB

The 2007 Annual Report explores the advances made in data deposition, query, and outreach by the RCSB PDB during the past year. In particular, the report highlights the release of the data from the wwPDB’s Remediation Project that has dramatically improved the data represented within the PDB archive, as evidenced by the higher quality searching and reporting capabilities now possible on the RCSB PDB website
and database.

The 2007 Annual Report (download PDF)

The virus images shown on the Annual Report cover also illustrate one of the many improvements made by the wwPDB Remediation Project. Capsids were once difficult to properly construct, but can now be created directly from the PDB entries.
This report is distributed to the diverse community of PDB users in academia, industry, and education. If you would like a printed copy of this report, please send your postal address to info@rcsb.org.

Snapshot: January 1, 2008
48091	released atomic coordinate entries
Molecule Type
44290	proteins, peptides, and viruses
1829	nucleic acids
1938	protein/nucleic acid complexes
34	other
Experimental Technique
40855	X-ray
6981	NMR
161	electron microscopy
94	other

30057	structure factor files
3793	NMR restraint files

This Newsletter describes some of the 2008 developments already in motion:

Beginning February 1, the deposition of experimental data (namely, structure factors and/or restraints) will be required when depositing coordinates
A new version of ADIT, currently in beta testing, will become the production version in early 2008
A survey regarding the educational resources available from our website is underway
Several job openings are now available

Other developments and resources will be announced in our weekly news and this quarterly newsletter.

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