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PDB-101 resources promote exploration in the world of proteins and nucleic acids for teachers, students, and the general public. A video tour highlights some of the different features available.

New features include the new Molecular Machinery poster and the GFP paper model.

Other PDB-101 resources include:

• Educational Resources include posters, animations, paper models, and classroom lessons and activities.
• Author Profiles offer historical and educational timelines of the structures associated with a particular researcher. Example profiles and searches for authors and structural genomics centers are available.
• Molecule of the Month articles describe the structure and function of a molecule, offer interactive views and discussion topics, and links to specialized pages to help explore specific example structures.
• The Structural View of Biology Browser promotes a top-down exploration of the PDB. Readers can travel through high-level functional categories (such as Protein Synthesis and Health and Disease) and descriptive subcategories (like Replication or Immune System) to access relevant articles that describe molecules in simple terms and provide specific examples.
• Understanding PDB Data is a reference to help explore and interpret individual PDB entries. Broad topics include how to understand PDB data, how to visualize structures, how to read coordinate files, and potential challenges to exploring the archive.
• Video Challenge. RCSB PDB recently challenged high school students to tell a molecular story about HIV/AIDS, with great results.
• EduForum. Start a discussion about structural biology.

See more images from the IUCr Conference on the wwPDB Facebook page.

The General Assembly and Congress of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) took place August 5-12, 2014 in Montreal City, Canada. The RCSB PDB, along with many wwPDB members, met with many PDB data depositors and users. In addition to the wwPDB exhibit stand, where depositors posed for the wwPDB Facebook page, related presentations included:

Posters

• The New wwPDB Deposition and Annotation System (John Westbrook, RCSB PDB)
• Educational Outreach and User Training at the wwPDB (Matthew Conroy, PDBe & Christine Zardecki, RCSB PDB)

Oral Presentations

• The history of the PDB as a public resource for enabling science (Helen M. Berman, RCSB PDB)
• Educational Outreach and User Training at the wwPDB (Matthew Conroy, PDBe & Christine Zardecki, RCSB PDB)
• New wwPDB validation pipelines for X-ray, NMR and 3DEM structures (Sameer Velankar, PDBe)

Josephine H. Leung

Thomas Hoffmann

The RCSB PDB Poster Prize is awarded for the best student poster presentations at selected meetings. Recipients receive an educational book.

IUCr

The RCSB PDB Poster Prize was awarded to Josephine H. Leung for

Transhydrogenase coupling proton translocation and hydride transfer Josephine H. Leung,¹ Lici A. Schurig-Briccio,² Mutsuo Yamaguchi,¹ Arne Moeller,^3,4Jeffrey A. Speir,³ Robert B. Gennis,² Charles D. Stout¹

1. Department of Integrative Structural and Computational Biology, The Scripps Research Institute
2. Department of Biochemistry, University of Illinois
3. National Resource for Automated Molecular Microscopy, The Scripps Research Institute
4. Current address: Aarhus University

Many thanks to the poster prize chair Alba Guarne (McMaster University) and the judging committee.

ISMB

Structural Analysis and Remodeling of T-Cell Receptors Thomas Hoffmann and Iris Antes, Technische Universität München, Germany

Many thanks to the International Society for Computational Biology and the ISMB poster judges.

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A new Bioinformatics paper describes how the iOS/Android app enables fast and convenient access to RCSB PDB data and services:

RCSB PDB Mobile: iOS and Android mobile apps to provide data access and visualization to the RCSB Protein Data Bank (2014) Bioinformatics doi:10.1093/bioinformatics/btu596

This universal app enables the general public, researchers and scholars to search the PDB and visualize protein structures over a WiFi or cellular data connection.

Freely available for the iPhone/iPod/iPad and Android (2.3.3 and above), RCSB PDB Mobile can be used to search the entire PDB database, view the latest released structures, access MyPDB accounts, and view the entire catalog of Molecule of the Month articles.

Interactive 3D visualization utilizes the program NDKMol (courtesy of Dr. Takanori Nakane, Kyoto University). Interactively view a molecule from by entering a PDB ID or launching the viewer from the search results. These views can be saved as images.

RCSB PDB Mobile can be downloaded from the Apple Store and Google play.

Images of PDB's molecular machines will be on display across the nation this fall. The Art of Science traveling exhibit uses the context of an art exhibit to introduce audiences new and old to to the beauty of the biomacromolecular structures and biology available in the PDB.

The show will be on display and open to the public at McPherson College in McPherson, Kansas first in Friendship Hall during the month of November, and then permanently displayed in the Melhorn Science Hall. The exhibit will also take place at the Delbarton School's Fine Arts Center in Morristown, NJ from November 24, 2014 to January 15, 2015. An additional show at the Applications and Research Lab in Howard County, Maryland will be scheduled.

Since its beginnings in an art gallery at Rutgers University, the show has been hosted around the world including Texas A&M University, EMBL-Hamburg, Germany; University of Wisconsin-Madison; California State University, Fullerton; Purdue University; Hyderabad, India. The exhibit toured mostly between 2002-2007, with recent iterations in Egypt (2013) and Paris (2014).

The current exhibit includes images from the original Art of Science show along with new works inspired by important Molecule of the Month topics, and the International Year of Crystallography (IYCr). Support for this exhibition has been provided by a grant from the American Crystallographic Association for IYCr.

For more information on the Art of Science, please contact info@rcsb.org.