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Respiratory Supercomplex

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New Ways to Explore Similar Proteins

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Distributing PDBx/mmCIF-Formatted Assembly Files

Distributing PDBx/mmCIF-Formatted Assembly Files

The PDB archive now distributes assembly files in PDBx/mmCIF format, allowing direct access and visualization of curated assemblies for all PDB entries.

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  • Explore Computed Structure Models Alongside PDB Data

    Explore Computed Structure Models Alongside PDB Data

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  • Education Corner: Bound! Protein-Drug Card Game

    Education Corner: Bound! Protein-Drug Card Game

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    » 08/29/2022

  • Molecular Landscapes: <I>E. coli</I>

    Molecular Landscapes: E. coli

    A detailed key is now available to help understand this cross-section through an Escherichia coli cell.
    » 08/23/2022

  • Chemical Sketch Tool

    Chemical Sketch Tool

    Build chemical drawings to search for small molecules in the PDB
    » 08/16/2022

  • Poster Prize Awarded at ACA

    Poster Prize Awarded at ACA

    Congratulations to Akua Donkor for Understanding the role of pyridoxal reductase in pyridoxal 5’-phosphate homeostasis
    » 08/09/2022

  • Congratulations to David S. Goodsell

    Congratulations to David S. Goodsell

    The Molecule of the Month creator will receive the I. Fankuchen Award at the American Crystallographic Association's annual meeting.
    » 08/01/2022

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  • Poster Prize Awarded at ISMB

    Poster Prize Awarded at ISMB

    Congratulations to Nicola Bordin for AlphaFold2 reveals commonalities and novelties in protein structure space for 21 model organisms
    » 07/19/2022

  • Summer Newsletter Published

    Summer Newsletter Published

    Announcements for Developers; New Structure Annotations; Award-winning PDB-101 images; and more; Education Corner on Bound! A Protein-Drug Card Game
    » 07/12/2022

Molecule of the Month

Respiratory Supercomplex

Respiratory Supercomplex

In our mitochondria, three electron-transport complexes assemble into a supercomplex.

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Issue 93 - April 2022

Announcements for Developers; New Structure Annotations; Award-winning PDB-101 images; and more; Education Corner on Python Scripting for Biochemistry and Molecular BiologySpring 2022 Issue

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