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This chapter will first introduce you to the freely accessible data bank of protein structures (the “PDB”) and show you how to search, access, and understand the information within it. The second half presents a tool, PyMOL, with which you can start to visualize and analyze the data stored in the PDB.
We are now living in an atomic age. In order to understand the world, every person needs to have some understanding of atoms and molecules. Linus Pauling and Roger Hayward (Pauling and Hayward 1964)
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Skern, T. (2018). An Archive and a Tool: PDB and PyMOL. In: Exploring Protein Structure: Principles and Practice. Learning Materials in Biosciences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-76858-8_2
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