What Is Protein Data Bank (PDB) and Rasmol?

Today,we learn another new program called the Protein Data Bank (PDB). PDB is a program developed to provide the users vast varieties of information specifically in the studies of structural biology. Biologists and biochemist all around the world after thorough research using X-ray crystallography or NMR spectroscopy submit the obtained structure of biological molecules to the site so that other researchers around the globe can get access to it. PDB is extremely important in the development of the studies of structural biology such as structural genomics. To provide easier interface for the users to study about the structures,a program called the Rasmol is also developed. This program provides the users the function to display the structure in the computer and to edit it according to what they want. With the development of this program,the learning of the structure becomes more handy as we can edit even the colour and shape of the structure according to what we believe suit best for our own understanding. Here,we provide you with some simple structures that we have extracted and edited using the Rasmol.

Types of Protein	Numbers of Structure
Trypsin	989
Htr A	24
Lex A	2
Clp P	85
Clp B	83

Trypsin

Htr A

Lex A

Clp P

Clp B

Here is the video for PDB :

If you want to know more about Protein Data Bank (PDB), you can refer to this link:
http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/home/home.do