Structure of molecular needle
After yesterday’s post it’s no secret anymore that I’m interested (among other things) in oligomeric prokaryotic proteins. I often browse recent additions at PDB and see if there’s a new, exciting and...
View ArticleVisualization software for molecular assemblies by Thomas Goddard and Thomas...
Recently, among articles “in press” from Current Opinion in Structural Biology I found a paper by Thomas Goddard and Thomas Ferrin about software for visualization of large molecular assemblies. Even...
View ArticleThoughts on CASP – Critical assessment of methods of protein structure...
I’ve just read an introduction to the supplemental issue of the journal PROTEINS, dedicated to the most recent round of the CASP experiment. It describes the progress of the protein structure...
View ArticlePublishers, please provide images in the journal’s feed
Currently almost all scientific journals provide a RSS feed of their content. I am very grateful for that, as many other scientists. However, I see a large disproportion between what I would like to...
View ArticleJane – Journal/Author Name Estimator
Jane – Journal/Author Name Estimator is a new web based application that can suggest potential reviewers or target journals for a manuscript based on its title and abstract. It was just published by...
View ArticlePeptide and Protein Building Blocks for Synthetic Biology – EHC Broomley et al.
With my background in protein sequence analysis and recently increasing interest in synthetic biology/biological engineering, Deepak’s post about BioBrick project immediately caught my eye. However,...
View ArticleSemi-automated workflows – Taverna Interaction Service
I was still thinking about recent Neil’s wondering about possibility of automating every scientific workflow, when I saw this (Bioinformatics Advance Access abstract): The Taverna Interaction Service:...
View ArticleStructure of usher pore is available
Some time ago I posted breaking news about solved structure of usher pore. And few days ago it was deposited into PDB as 2VQI (publication appeared in Cell, here’s the abstract). The structure is a...
View ArticleMany Eyes and literature summary
I’m not the first one to come up with this idea – Ntino posted about it before. However, I didn’t really understand before how powerful it could be. Using Many Eyes visualization capabilities I’ve...
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