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WPDB - The Protein Data Bank through Microsoft Windows
Beta Testers Sought
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WPDB is a macromolecular structure query tool which is designed to
complement the features found in software like Rasmol, Kinemage and
PDBshell. Some of the features are as follows:
o 20-fold compression. The latest PDB release (2 CD's - Jan. 1994)
minus REMARK records, all but the first member of an NMR ensemble,
and only the first alternate atom location can be compressed
into approximately 40 MB.
o Real-time query based on text string searches of PDB record types,
sequence patterns, and secondary structure according to the
method of Kabsch and Sander.
o Interoperable display objects, currently 3-D renderer, contact
maps, and sequence profile analysis (volume, polarity,
isoelectric point, hydrophobicity, mean exposure and isotropic
temperature factors). Interoperable implies that a selection
made in one object will be propagated to other visible display
objects.
WPDB functions best on an Intel 486/33 processor or above with a color
monitor and requires DOS and Windows.
If you are interested in testing WPDB please send a mail message to
wpdb at cuhhca.hhmi.columbia.edu indicating your mailing address and
field of interest. The beta test will include a database of 100
structures and a detailed manual.
WPDB was designed, written and produced by Ilya Shindyalov and Phil Bourne.
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