First quarter release of protein data bank CD-ROMS. (News Briefs).NIST (National Institute of Standards & Technology, Washington, DC, www.nist.gov) The standards-defining agency of the U.S. government, formerly the National Bureau of Standards. It is one of three agencies that fall under the Technology Administration (www.technology. has completed the production of the latest Protein Data Bank (PDB) CD-ROM CD-ROM: see compact disc. CD-ROM in full compact disc read-only memory Type of computer storage medium that is read optically (e.g., by a laser). set. The CD-ROMs are produced quarterly; currently there are 1200 subscribers. This set contains the 16 972 protein or nucleic acid nucleic acid, any of a group of organic substances found in the chromosomes of living cells and viruses that play a central role in the storage and replication of hereditary information and in the expression of this information through protein synthesis. structures in the PDB as of Jan. 1, 2002. Eight CD-ROMs are required to contain the compressed structure files and the corresponding experimental data files. The PDB is updated weekly with 50 to 70 new structures, and the data are available via the internet at http://pdb.nist.gov. Therefore, the CD-ROM distribution is intended for those researchers without good internet access See how to access the Internet. and for industrial researchers who for proprietary reasons do not wish to work on-line. Subscriptions are increasing by more than 100 each quarter. This quarter a new program was used to produce the CD-ROM masters. The new program allows for starting the processing from several different stages and automates the processing of tasks that had formerly been done by hand. This both shortens the process and makes it more reliable. NIST manages the Protein Data Bank in collaboration with the San Diego San Diego (săn dēā`gō), city (1990 pop. 1,110,549), seat of San Diego co., S Calif., on San Diego Bay; inc. 1850. San Diego includes the unincorporated communities of La Jolla and Spring Valley. Coronado is across the bay. Super Computer Center and Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Biochemistry Department. CONTACT: Gary Gilliland, (301) 975-2629; gary.gilliland@nist.gov. |
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