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wwPDB Events at IUCr (August 21-28)

08/19 wwPDB News

Meet wwPDB members from around the globe at the 24th General Assembly and Congress of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr, August 21-28, 2017) in Hyderabad.

RCSB PDB News ImageCome to exhibition stand 76 to receive a special fan celebrating the wwPDB OneDep system.

Other wwPDB events include:

Tuesday August 22
- Oral Presentation at 10:30am in Hall 4: Small-molecule ligand/drug representation and validation in the Protein Data Bank presented by Genji Kurisu (PDBj)
- Poster 914: OneDep: wwPDB System for Deposition, Biocuration, Validation of Macromolecular Structures presented by Aleksandras Gutmanas (PDBe)

Thursday August 24
- Microsymposia-044 in Hall MR 2.02: Structural databases as teaching tools - Part A macromolecules) chaired by Joel Sussman (Weizmann Institute) and Christine Zardecki (RCSB PDB)

  • 10:30 Enlightening macromolecular structure-function relationship with Proteopedia Jaime Prilusky (Weizmann Institute)
  • 11:00 Structural view of biology: Exploring new perspectives for deeper learning Shuchismita Dutta (RCSB PDB)
  • 11:30 Disease to therapeutics via 3D structures: stories from viral world Urmila Kulkarni-Kale (University of Pune)
  • 12:00 PDBe: Bringing structure to biology and beyond Sameer Velankar (PDBe)
  • 12:30 SASBDB and DARA as biological solution scattering teaching tools by Alexey Kikhney (EMBL-Hamburg)
  • 12:45 Play with 3D structure data of biomolecules by Hirofumi Suzuki (PDBj)
- Poster 824: LiteMol: Web-based 3D visualization of macromolecular structure data presented by Matthew Conroy (PDBe)
- Poster 1366: PDB-101: Educational Portal for Molecular Explorations Through Biology and Medicine presented by Christine Zardecki (RCSB PDB)

Friday August 25
- Poster 1315: Annotation of organic CoFactor molecules in PDB presented by Abhik Mukhopadhyay (PDBe)

Saturday August 26
- Poster 1396: RCSB PDB: Structural biology views for basic and applied research presented by John Westbrook (RCSB PDB)
- Poster 1430: BioSync: An Online Resource for X-ray Facilities Worldwide presented by Stephen K. Burley (RCSB PDB)

Sunday August 27
- Oral Presentation at 12:30pm in Hall MR 2.03-2.04: wwPDB OneDep Validation Services presented by John Westbrook (RCSB PDB)
- Oral Presentation at 16:30pm in Hall MR 2.02: PDBx/mmCIF: The Foundation for the wwPDB OneDep System presented by John Westbrook (RCSB PDB)

The wwPDB is also sponsoring a Poster Prize for students in the “structural biology” category.

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