Message from RCSB PDB

RCSB PDB will be hosting a variety of training events throughout 2024, from virtual Office Hours to specialized Webinars. 

July Events

Virtual Office Hour:
RCSB PDB APIs

Tuesday July 9, 2024
2-3pm Eastern, 11am - noon Pacific

Interested in learning how to search for certain structures programmatically? Or want to discover how to retrieve and analyze structural data (experimental or computational) through our APIs?

RCSB PDB APIs build on the data available in the PDB archive and additional internal and external annotations. They power the RCSB.org website. Because they are publicly available, they can be also used without restrictions by users and external resources.

Registration is required for the Zoom meeting information, but attendance is at no charge.  Please sign up at https://go.rutgers.edu/ffrx9354.

Crash Course:
Python Scripting for Molecular Docking

Thursday, July 18, 2024
1-5pm Eastern, 10am-2pm Pacific

In this workshop, we will use Python scripting to explore ligand binding to enzymes. In the process, we will use a number of python libraries and these notebooks will be customizable for individual research and teaching purposes.

At the completion of this workshop, users will be able to:

• Perform advanced searches of the RCSB Protein Data Bank with the rcsbsearchapi package

• Modify chemical structures with the rdkit library

• Dock ligands with enzymes, yielding visual and quantitative energy results

Registration is required for the Zoom meeting information, but attendance is at no charge.  Please sign up athttps://go.rutgers.edu/dh4kdqnz.

Webinar:
Teaching Enzymology with the PDB: From Pandemic to Paxlovid

Tuesday, July 30, 2024
noon-1:30pm Eastern, 9-10:30am Pacific

Join us as we demonstrate how to navigate the RCSB PDB website to visualize each 3D structure and explore various annotations mapped to it; compare the shapes, interactions and functions of groups of PDB structures with similar sequences and/or similar structures; and use RCSB PDB data, tools and resources to enhance classroom instructions and build lessons for teaching about enzymes.

Registration is required for the Zoom meeting information, but attendance is at no charge.  Please sign up at https://go.rutgers.edu/d281cvyc.

Past events

The recording and related materials from our Spring events Understanding PDB Validation: Which experimental structures should I rely on? and A Deep Dive into Computed Structure Model Exploration at RCSB.org are available from PDB-101.

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