The RCSB PDB “Molecule of the Month”: Inspiring a Molecular View of Biology

By David S. Goodsell, Shuchismita Dutta, Christine Zardecki, Maria Voigt, Helen M. Berman, Stephen K. Burley. 2015

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The Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) Molecule of the Month series provides a curated introduction to the 3-D biomolecular structures available in the Protein Data Bank archive and the tools that are available at the RCSB website for accessing and exploring them. A variety of educational materials, such as articles, videos, posters, hands-on activities, lesson plans, and curricula, build on this series for use in a variety of educational settings as a general introduction to key topics, such as enzyme action, protein synthesis, and viruses. The series and associated educational materials are freely available at www.rcsb.org.

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ProDCoNN: Protein design using a convolutional neural network (2019, background): “We chose 10 149 protein structures (ID30) with the sequence's identity lower than 30% from PDB. 28 The sequence identity of the structures between ID90TR and ID90TS are lower than 30% if the length difference ≤ 20%.”
RCSB Protein Data Bank: Enabling biomedical research and drug discovery (2019, background): “A main focus is the Molecule of the Month series, 21 currently in its 20th year of “ telling molecular stories ” about structure and function.”
RCSB Protein Data Bank: powerful new tools for exploring 3D structures of biological macromolecules for basic and applied research and education in fundamental biology, biomedicine, biotechnology, bioengineering and energy sciences (2020, background): “A set of graphical/text boxes provides direct access to intensively used resources, including a main feature (currently COVID-19), the current Molecule of the Month article (30,31), a gallery of Latest Entries, Features & Highlights and News.”
The RCSB protein data bank: integrative view of protein, gene and 3D structural information (2016, background): “New features include keyword and text searching to improve access to more than 200 Molecule of the Month articles (39), paper models, posters, animations, curricular modules and other materials developed by the RCSB PDB to support exploration and extended learning.”