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

Winter 2009
Number 40

 
NEWSLETTER
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Message from the RCSB PDB
Data Deposition
PDB Archive Version 3.15 to be Released
Tips for Depositing Multiple Related Structures using ADIT/ADIT-NMR
2008 Deposition Statistics
Data Query, Reporting and Access
2008 Website Statistics
View Domain Annotations in 3D
Getting Started with the RCSB PDB Website
Browser Check for Compatibility with Website Features
Outreach and Education
Meetings and Presentations
Looking at Structures: A Resource for Learning About PDB Data
Publications: 2008 Annual Report and more
Education Corner
Bernadette Uzzi, Coordinator, The Science Learning Center at Brookhaven National Laboratory
PDB Community Focus
Johannes Kirchmair, Ph.D., and Gerhard Wolber, Ph.D., University of Innsbruck
RCSB PDB PARTNERS, MANAGEMENT, AND STATEMENT OF SUPPORT
 
         
 

DATA QUERY, REPORTING AND ACCESS

2008 Website Statistics

2008 access statistics for www.pdb.org are given below. Download statistics are available from www.wwpdb.org.

Month
Unique Visitorss
Visits
Bandwidth
January
128781
319459
426.87 GB
February
139444
338946
567.18 GB
March
152264
361999
642.98 GB
April
134119
309222
585.77 GB
May
123862
286612
607.73 GB
June
132168
317814
651.02 GB
July
161567
355065
636.25 GB
August
133412
296024
514.27 GB
September
168114
366983
631.13 GB
October
178581
404453
843.63 GB
November
173891
381565
728.30 GB
December
141294
303359
491.65 GB

 


View Domain Annotations in 3D

Sequence Details pages for all protein structures now include a Jmol view of the structure that can display domain annotations from SCOP, CATH, DP, PDP, Pfam, and InterPro.

To activate this view from a structure summary page, first select the Sequence Details tab. The default view displays a 2D graphical representation of the UniProt, PDB-ATOM and PDB-SEQRES sequences. Users can also select third-party domain annotations from this 2D image to appear with the corresponding structure in a Jmol viewer.

To view these annotations mapped onto the 3D structure, select [show 3D in Jmol] from the top of the page. Then, click on any of the domains on the sequence view. The corresponding colors for that domain will appear in the 3D Jmol viewer. The annotations shown in Jmol can change by clicking on an annotation shown in the 2D view.

By default, the Jmol window stays positioned on the top of the page. Select [dynamic Jmol position] to have the Jmol viewer adjust so that it is always to the top right of the page as you scroll down.


2D and 3D representations of sequence and domain annotations for PDB entry 1cdg (C.L. Lawson, R. van Montfort, B. Strokopytov, H.J. Rozeboom, K.H. Kalk, G.E. de Vries, D. Penninga, L. Dijkhuizen, B.W. Dijkstra (1994) Nucleotide sequence and X-ray structure of cyclodextrin glycosyltransferase from Bacillus circulans strain 251 in a maltose-dependent crystal form. J.Mol.Biol. 236: 590-600).

 


Getting Started with the RCSB PDB Website

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This page is available from the bottom of www.pdb.org.


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