These tools process the information from the protein data files and load this information into a relational database. At this time, the content of the Protein Finder database is extracted from the data files in the PDB archive without modification. The database is currently available at the Rutgers Site and will shortly be available at all of the NDB mirror sites. This work was presented by John Westbrook at the Protein Ligand Databases Workshop at EBI in December 1996. Zukang, who formerly worked at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo, NY and prior to that worked with Manfred S. Sippl at Salzburg University, will be working at the NDB on structure comparison.
Preparations are underway for another summer of undergraduate research.
Past summer projects have included the NDB Pictorial and Musical Atlases, and mmCIF software programs. One of our undergraduate summer projects last year was the creation of a Musical Atlas that provided aural representations of sequence for selected B-DNA structures. This Atlas and a detailed explanation of this project are available through the Archives section of the NDB home page. Please note that you will need hardware and software that allows you to listen to .AU and .WAV files to hear these compositions. A comprehensive relational database of three-dimensional structures of nucleic acids.