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Statistics

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Adoptions

Some bioinformatics databases and resources have adopted Proteopedia. This means that they have chosen to offer links to Proteopedia for the benefit of their users.

• Jmol Tutorial-Authoring Template (JTAT) automatically provides a link to Proteopedia for each PDB file illustrated in its tutorials. August, 2008.

• Molecule of the Month by David Goodsell provides links to Proteopedia in some recent articles. An example is at the end of the second page of the article on Selenocysteine Synthase. August, 2008.

• OCA Database and Browser for 3D macromolecular structure has a link from each PDB entry to Proteopedia. August, 2008.

• PDBsum has a link to Proteopedia on every PDB entry page. August, 2008.

• PDBWiki has a link to Proteopedia on every PDB entry page. August, 2008.

• RCSB Protein Data Bank (see Proteopedia's page on the Protein Data Bank), has a link from each PDB entry to Proteopedia, but it can be a bit hard to find. To find it: At the Structure Summary tab/page for a given PDB code, in the menu at left, click on External LInks. On that page, you'll find a link to Proteopedia under Structure Summary. If you think it would be useful to have a more prominent link to Proteopedia at RCSB-PDB, please email . In May, 2008, an international group of several structural bioinformaticians and crystallographers requested that a link to Proteopedia replace the present Jmol link under Display Options at the upper right of the main Structure Summary page for each entry, but that request was denied. Eric Martz 03:19, 7 August 2008 (IDT)

• Pfam, a large database of protein families, each represented by multiple sequence alignments and hidden Markov models, will offer links to Proteopedia beginning with Pfam release 23. August, 2008.

• PSI Structural Genomics Knowledge Base has a link to Proteopedia, on its Annotations tab, for every PDB entry. August, 2008.

Blogs

• car54.wordpress.com
• Wonder: Sci-Tech Department

• www.scientificblogging.com
• digg.com/tech_news
• AlphaGalileo
• Bio-Medicine
• Science Daily
• e! Science News
• PHYSORG.com
• AECC
• Medical Health Articles
• ICONOCAST
• SILObreaker

Press

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Talks in Meetings and Seminars

• In I am not a PDBid I am a Biological Macromolecule, the keynote talk at 3DSig 2008, Structural Bioinformatics and Computational Biophysics (an ISMB satellite meeting Toronto, 18-19 July 2008), Philip E. Bourne discussed removing the barrier between the literature and the PDB, featuring his BioLit project. In this context, he listed Proteopedia as Possibility 1, "a completely new beginning", and discussed its advantages (anyone can contribute leading to wiki quality) and disadvantages (reward for authoring? limitations of wiki format).

Training Workshops

• Short courses and one-day workshops are taught by Eric Martz on macromolecular structure visualization and structural bioinformatics. These now include a segment on Proteopedia, including use of Proteopedia's Scene-Authoring Tools. In 2008, these have been at the Weizmann Institute of Science in Israel, and at Osaka University and the Okinawa Institute of Science and Technology in Japan. For curricula and upcoming dates, please see Workshops.MolviZ.Org. August, 2008.