RCSB Protein Data Bank
Free Tutorial Suite Sponsored By RCSB PDB
| Learn to use the RCSB Protein Data Bank, or PDB, a tremendous resource that provides a variety of tools and resources for accessing data in the PDB archive. The PDB archive contains information about experimentally-determined structures of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies. As a member of the wwPDB, the RCSB PDB not only provides tools for access PDB archive data but they also curate and annotate PDB data. Researchers can access images of structures, as well as detailed experimental data. Links to other important details such as family and domain information, ligand details, pathway data, and more, can also be found. Many tools to examine and manipulate the three-dimensional structures are available. The RCSB PDB also provides extensive educational resources, including a molecule of the month feature and other materials that can be used to understand the basics of structural biology. | |||||
You'll learn:
- how to search for structures and related information using a variety of strategies
- to understand the results and structure summary pages and link to additional information
- how to visualize and manipulate the structures
- to customize your results by using the many formatting options
More about the resource:
The Protein Data Bank is the only global archive of macromolecular structure data. This data can be accessed via the RCSB PDB, which contains images, coordinates and detailed information on 3D structures of proteins, nucleic acids and carbohydrates. The RCSB PDB is freely available in the public domain; it is hosted and managed by the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB).
Related tutorials
This tutorial is a part of the tutorial group PDB/SGKB. You might find the other tutorials in the group interesting:
- Structural Biology Knowledgebase: The Protein Structure Initiative Structural Biology Knowledgebase
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