Number 9Spring 2001 RCSB
Published quarterly by the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics

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14,731 Released atomic coordinate entries

Molecule Type

• 13,158 proteins, peptides, and viruses
• 939 nucleic acids
• 616 protein/nucleic acid complexes
• 18 carbohydrates

Experimental Technique

• 12,137 diffraction and other
• 5,032 structure factor files
• 2,273 NMR
• 968 NMR restraint files
• 321 theoretical modeling

PDB Deposition Statistics Over 800 structures were deposited to the PDB in the first quarter of the year 2001... [MORE...]

New mmCIF Resources Page The PDB has compiled a list of mmCIF (macromolecular Crystallographic Information File) resources... [MORE...]

CIF Parsing Modules Available The CIF (Crystallographic Information File) format, a subset of STAR (Self-defining Text Archival and Retrieval format), is suitable for archiving all types of text and numerical data... [MORE...]

CORBA Specification for Macromolecular Structure Adopted by OMG On Tuesday, February 27, 2001, the Board of Directors of the Object Management Group (OMG) voted to adopt the Common Object Request Broker Architecture (CORBA) Macromolecular Structure Specification... [MORE...]

Data Uniformity Project Web Page Data Uniformity is the name given to the PDB's efforts to provide a consistent and standard data archive... [MORE...]

Molecular Interactive Collaborative Environment (MICE) Now Available from the PDB Web Site The PDB is pleased to announce the availability of MICE on its Web site and mirrors... [MORE...]

Custom Reports Now Available from the PDB Web Site An additional feature has been added to the PDB Web site which allows users to create their own customized tabular reports... [MORE...]

PDB Web Site Statistics A list of useful guides to The access statistics for the primary PDB Web site at http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/ show that the numbers of hits received and files downloaded continue to increase... [MORE...]

Structural Genomics Web Page at PDB The PDB has compiled a variety of structural genomics links as part of the Web site... [MORE...]

PDB CD-ROM Set 95 Now Available The latest PDB CD-ROM (release #95) is currently being distributed... [MORE...]

PDB Annual Report Available On-line The PDB Annual Report is now available from the PDB Web site in PDF format... [MORE...]

PDB Highlighted in Genome Biology The Protein Data Bank was reviewed in a Web Report in Genome Biology... [MORE...]

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Molecules of the Quarter Alcohol Dehydrogenase, Insulin, and Transfer RNA. [MORE...]