What is PDBsum?
At-a-glance overview of every macromolecular structure deposited in the Protein Data Bank. PDBsum provides summary information about each experimentally determined structural model in the Protein Data Bank (PDB).
What is the Protein Data Bank (PDB)?
Between the inception of the Protein Data Bank 1 (PDB) in 1971, and the emergence of the World Wide Web (WWW) in the early 1990s, the analysis of protein structures was a rather cumbersome business. The data for each experimentally determined structural model were available as text files deposited by the experimentalists.
Who are the authors of PDBsum?
The authors of the programs used in generating and running the PDBsum database include David Smith, Gail Hutchinson, Alex Michie, Andrew Martin, Ian McDonald, Andrew Wallace, Nick Luscombe, Duncan Milburn and Atsushi Kasuya. I would like to thank Martin Jones and John Bouquiere for their contribution to the database’s development and running.
What is the net result in the PDB?
The net result is a list of all other chains in the PDB that are similar at the sequence level to the one of interest. The SAS database provides a variety of different annotations of the resultant multiple-sequence alignment, as well as enabling the user to view the superposed structures in 3D in RasMol.