Talk:Protein Data Bank
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This is more as a word of warning: Viewing structures via the PDB seems to work best with Netscape 4.7x. I have no luck with IE and some of the Chime-dependent display programs warn you that Netscape 6 won't work either. - David M
[edit] More detail and references needed in history section
From the article: "The PDB is a key resource in structural biology and is critical to more recent work in structural genomics." Some references here for work that uses the PDB in an interesting/important way would be good.
From the article: "Countless derived databases and projects have been developed to integrate and classify the PDB in terms of protein structure, protein function and protein evolution." Such as? Give some examples for the derived databases.
From the growth section: "The growth rate of the PDB has been the subject of fairly extensive analysis." .. such as? this needs referencing, why was it subject to extensive analysis? where are these?
[edit] Raw data?
Knowing the amount of modeling which goes to a structure deposited to the PDB, I would hardly call the coordinate files in PDB as 'raw data'.
[edit] Protein Data Bank (file format) needed
A new page Protein Data Bank (file format) is needed, which should cross link to Chemical file format and use also the proper [[Category:Chemical file format]] category. JKW 15:58, 8 April 2006 (UTC)
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- Initial Protein Data Bank (file format) created and anything related to format discussions on the Protein Data Bank should be moved to this page. JKW 11:20, 22 April 2006 (UTC)
