Saturday 29 October 2011

Quips about "stunning" software and the first structure it helped solve

From: Gerard DVD Kleywegt
Date: 14 October 2011 18:43


Hi all,

The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; pdbe.org) regularly produces Quips, short stories about QUite Interesting Pdb Structures (pdbe.org/quips). Quips address biologically interesting aspects of one or more PDB entries, coupled with interactive graphics views and often a mini-tutorial or suggestions for further exploration using PDBe services and resources.

Today another Quips episode was released. It looks back at the first crystal structure that was solved with the program Phaser and also tries to explain in (almost) layman's terms how Molecular Replacement works. The accompanying mini-tutorial shows you how to do multiple structure superimposition using PDBeFold (SSM).

The Quips story can be found here: http://pdbe.org/quips?story=Phaser

There is also an RSS feed that informs you whenever there is a new Quips article available. For links to this and several other feeds, see http://pdbe.org/rss

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If you have an interesting structure whose story you would like to tell (with our help) in the form of a Quips episode, please contact us at pdbe@ebi.ac.uk

--Gerard

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Gerard J. Kleywegt, 

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