RELATED LINKS: DATABASE CHALLENGES IN BIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM

These links are related to the presentations given at the RCSB's "Databases Challenges in Biology" symposium held on September 10 at CARB.

Biomedical Informatics Research Network (BIRN; nbirn.net)
Multi-scale Imaging and Databasing of the Nervous System with Advanced Cyberinfrastructure, Mark Ellisman, University of California, San Diego

National Center for Macromolecular Imaging (ncmi.bcm.tmc.edu/ncmi)
Database for Cryo-Electron Microscopy, Wah Chiu, Baylor College of Medicine

VIrus Particle ExploreR (VIPER; mmtsb.scripps.edu/viper)
VIrus Particle ExploreR (VIPER): a Database of Standardized Atom Coordinates for Icosahedral Viruses and Derived Descriptions of Subunit Interactions, John Johnson, The Scripps Research Institute

Center for Eukaryotic Structural Genomics (CESG; uwstructuralgenomics.org) and BioMagResBank (BMRB; www.bmrb.wisc.edu)
Data Management in the Laboratory: User Facilities and Research on Small and Large Scales, John Markley, University of Wisconsin-Madison

CDD: A Conserved Domain Database (www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/Structure/cdd/cdd.shtml)
Conserved Domain Database: A Protein Family Database, Stephen Bryant, National Center for Biotechnology Information

Protein Information Resource (pir.georgetown.edu)
PIR Integrated Bioinformatics for Functional Genomics and Proteomics, Cathy Wu, Georgetown University Medical Center

RCSB PDB (www.pdb.org) and RCSB PDB Beta (pdbbeta.rcsb.org)
The RCSB Protein Data Bank: An Integrated Resource for Structural Biology, Helen M. Berman, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Speakers, from left to right: John E.Johnson, Wah Chiu, Mark H. Ellisman, Helen M. Berman, John L. Markley, Stephen H. Bryant, Cathy H. Wu