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PDB reaches a quarter of a million structures

12 March 202612 March 2026 chris

The Protein Data Bank is an invaluable resource for protein structural information. As well as being a resource used by structural biologists, medicinal chemists and

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Uniprot to PDB id Vortex script

13 April 202513 April 2025 chris

The previous scripts have allowed the user to get more information about a PDB entry and to import the ligand structures. This script allows the

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Vortex script for getting PDB ligand structures

6 April 20256 April 2025 chris

The two previous vortex scripts used the PBD id to download information about a biomolecular structure structure from the Worldwide Protein Data Bank. The second

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Two Vortex scripts for interacting with PDB

5 April 20255 April 2025 chris

The Worldwide Protein Data Bank collects, organises and disseminates data on biological macromolecular structures. The wwPDB Partners are: PDBe, RCSB PDB, PDBj, BMRB, EMDB. Currently the PDB contains over

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RoseTTAFold All-Atom is published

8 March 20248 March 2024 chris

I suspect many people have been anticipating this, whilst AlphaFold was a great step forward in predicting protein 3D structure it did have significant limitations.

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A jupyter notebook to download ligands from PDB

24 January 202424 January 2024 chris

A previous post described Getting Ligand ID for multiple PDB files, using the PDBe API (https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/pdbe-services). The result is a csv file containing the ligand

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Another PDB tools Jupyter Notebook

22 January 202422 January 2024 chris

The Protein Data Bank (https://www.rcsb.org) is an invaluable repository of 3D biomolecular structures. As of writing the database contains 214,791 structures (X-ray, Cryo-EM and NMR)

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Getting Ligand ID for multiple PDB files

21 January 202422 January 2024 chris

The Protein Data Bank (https://www.rcsb.org) is an invaluable repository of 3D biomolecular structures. As of writing the database contains 214,791 structures (X-ray, Cryo-EM and NMR)

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MolPainter and MolSolvator

22 April 202322 April 2023 chris

MolPainter is a novel GUI tool for constructing layered molecular systems represented using PDB files, it can be used to construct multilayer molecular systems. MolPainter

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Download multiple PDB files using a Jupyter notebook

1 April 202322 January 2024 chris

The RCSB Protein Data Bank is an absolutely invaluable resource that provides archive-information about the 3D shapes of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies that helps scientists

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