The RCSB Protein Data Bank is an absolutely invaluable resource that provides archive-information about the 3D shapes of proteins, nucleic acids, and complex assemblies that helps scientists understand all aspects of biomedicine and agriculture, from protein synthesis to health and disease. Currently the PDB contains over 134,000 data files containing structural information on 42547 distinct protein sequences of which 37600 are human sequences. They also provide a series of tools to search, view and analyse the data.

The latest addition to the Hints and Tutorials page is a couple of Vortex scripts for interacting with the RCSB Protein Data Bank, specifically they search for PDB structures associated with a list of Uniprot codes, and then search for associated information. Read more here…