[BiO BB] [compbio] 23 September seminar (fwd)

[Dan Bolser]

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Date: Tue, 21 Sep 2004 20:30:13 +0100 (BST)
From: Loredana Lo Conte <loredana at mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk>
To: compbio at sanger.ac.uk
Subject: [compbio] 23 September seminar

Greetings.

There will be a seminar on Thursday, 23 September at 11am in the Max
Perutz theater at MRC by Dr. Wolfgang Bluhm of the San Diego Supercomputer
Center (RCSB consortium).

Title:
The reengineered RCSB PDB Web site

Abstract:

The Protein Data Bank (http://www.pdb.org/, PDB) of the
Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) has been
reengineering the current RCSB PDB Web site and database.
The reengineered site is built on the improved primary data in the curated
mmCIF and XML files (see http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/uniformity/ ).

Improvements of the reengineered RCSB PDB include:

1) More accurate search results due to improved data in mmCIF and XML
files
2) Better navigation and search tools for both structures and Web site
content
3) Browsing of structures according to various classifications and
ontologies
4) Integrated searching of PubMed abstracts
5) More detailed reports with additional experimental details
6) New visualization options
7) Data access through Web services
8) The ability to run the entire Web site and database on a laptop
("PDB-in-a-Box")

All welcome.

Loredana Lo Conte