Production complete for new protein Data Bank CD-Rom sets. (General Developments).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 production of a new 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 of the macromolecular mac·ro·mol·e·cule n. A very large molecule, such as a polymer or protein, consisting of many smaller structural units linked together. Also called supermolecule. structures of proteins and nucleic acids and the corresponding experimental data. This set, Issue 101, contains 18 528 structures in gzip format and requires 9 CD-ROMs per set. The customer base is 463 domestic and 926 foreign subscribers, with about 120 additional requests for each release. The number of structures increases by about 70 per week, so each quarterly release contains about 800 more structures than the previous. The number of subscribers also increases with each quarterly release of the PDB CD-ROM set. The masters for this CD-ROM release were produced using a new web-based tool that adds flexibility to allow production of incremental sets of PDB holdings or separate CD-ROM products for structures and x-ray or NMR NMR: see magnetic resonance. experimental data. CONTACT: Phoebe Fagan, (301) 975-2213; phoebe. fagan@nist.gov. |
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