PDBBrowse — a graphics interface to the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank

Abstract

With a few keystrokes and mouse button clicks on a UNIX workstation, the entire Protein Data Bank archive is now available for searching and displaying the three-dimensional protein structures contained within.

Protein Data Bank (PDB): Database of Three-Dimensional Structural Information of Biological Macromolecules

“…2. The WWW 3DB Browser in action (Peitsch et al, 1995;Stampf et al, 1995;Sussman, 1997). On the left is the browse screen, with windows to enter search strings.…”

“…The entries are also available over the Internet from Brookhaven and 14 mirror sites worldwide, listed in Table 2. They can be searched and retrieved via the Internet browser (Peitsch et al, 1995;Stampf et al, 1995) and now the 3DB Browser (Sussman, 1997), that is interfaced through WWW browsers such as Netscape, Explorer etc., as illustrated in Fig. 2.…”

Structural biology data archiving – where we are and what lies ahead

“…Later, CD-ROM became the distribution medium of choice, but since the internet has become commonplace most structure downloads are taking place through ftp, web downloads or specialized APIs (application-programming interfaces). The rise of the worldwide web and user-friendly browsers in the early 1990s has been instrumental in making structure data accessible in an interactive fashion, with the first webbased interface becoming available in 1995 [11]. In 1998, the Research Collaboratory for Structural Biology (RCSB) [12] took over the responsibility of running the PDB.…”

Crystallographers

“…It has been in use at the PDB since early 1993 and unlike the WWW-based browsers (Peitsch et al, 1995;Stampf et al, 1995;Biggs et al, 1996), GETENTRY can be run on any terminal or window connected to a Unix host.…”