RCSB PDB Newsletter | Summer 2010

June Release of Website Features
Several options for searching and reporting chemical components have been added. For example, a search for "Chemical name contains adenosine" will return all PDB entries that match that search; many of these structures will also contain ligands that do not have "adenosine" in their chemical name. Advanced Search now provides the option to display either only the ligands that match the search criteria (those with "adenosine" in name) or all of the ligands associated with the PDB entries returned in the search (those with "adenosine" in the name and those without) in the Ligand Hits tab for query results.

The latest release of the website includes many other new features, such as enhancements to

Comparison Tool for exploring sequence and structure alignments
Chemical component searching
Generation customized and interactive tabular reports
Molecule of the Month

For an overview, see the New Features widget box on the home page.

Snapshot: July 1, 2010
66212	released atomic coordinate entries
Molecule Type
61280	proteins, peptides, and viruses
2148	nucleic acids
2746	protein/nucleic acid complexes
38	other
Experimental Technique
57298	X-ray
8449	NMR
295	electron microscopy
24	hybrid
146	other

46690	structure factor files
5742	NMR restraint files

Updated interface for chemical component search.

PSI SBKB Reports on 10 Years of the Protein Structure Initiative (PSI)

Visit www.sbkb.org for a unique view of the current state of structural biology. From July - October 2010, the PSI Structural Biology Knowledgebase (PSI SBKB) is publishing a series of articles that highlight the progress made by the PSI over the past decade in the areas of

METHODS (July)
Cloning; expression and purification; crystallization; NMR; crystallography (Link)

MODELS (August)
Target selection; servers and databases; annotation; methods and workshops (Link)

STRUCTURES (September)
Metagenomics; membrane proteins; pathways; fold and sequence coverage; achievements and milestones (Link)

OUTREACH (October)
Working with industry and the biological community; functional annotations

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