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01-July-2008
Notice: Planned SDSC Power Outage July 8-9
The San Diego Supercomputer Center (SDSC) hosts servers used by the
RCSB PDB. On July 8-9, 2008, SDSC will perform necessary repairs and
maintenance on an electrical transformer.
We anticipate providing uninterrupted service during this time
through off-site failover servers located at the Skaggs School of
Pharmacy and Rutgers University for production resources.
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24-June-2008
Ligand Expo: A Small Molecule Resource
The Chemical Component Dictionary archives chemical and structural
information about all of the small molecules found within PDB
structure entries. Ligand Expo
(ligand-expo.rcsb.org)
is a new tool that can access, visualize, and build reports about
these data.
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Welcome to the RCSB PDB
The
RCSB
PDB provides a variety of tools and resources for studying the
structures of biological macromolecules and their relationships to
sequence, function, and disease.
The RCSB is a member of the
wwPDB whose mission
is to ensure that the PDB archive remains an international resource
with uniform data.
This site offers tools for browsing, searching, and reporting that
utilize the data resulting from ongoing efforts to create a more
consistent and comprehensive archive.
Information about compatible browsers can be found
here.
A
narrated tutorial illustrates how to search,
navigate, browse, generate reports and visualize structures using this
new site.
[This requires the Macromedia
Flash
player download.]
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