PDBWiki is a prototype for a community annotated knowledge base of biological molecular structures and related information. It was created in August 2007 by members of the Structural Proteomics Group at the Max-Planck-Institute for Molecular Genetics and is currently under development. Feedback and suggestions are very welcome.
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Project purpose
The purpose of the project is to create a community driven resource for basic protein structure annotation. Starting with data from the Protein Data Bank (PDB), we allow users to contribute comments, classification, and other information to the archive. By this mechanism we aim to create a forum for discussion, improve data quality and minimize duplication of effort.
Our hope is that community driven feedback can produce a high standard of quality feedback leading to standardised datasets for protein structure analysis. Ultimately we aim to provide a hub for information related to the PDB, highlighting the diverse range of decentralised data related to protein structure.
Future development
Features which may be incorporated in the future include
References
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