Resource | Purpose | Contents (April 2008) | Web resource | Contains all entries in the PDB, updated automatically | Community annotation | Interactive three-dimensional within site with molecular scenes linked to text | User-friendly three-dimensional authoring tools, freely available |
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Proteopedia | A free, collaborative, three-dimensional encyclopedia of proteins and other molecules | One page for every PDB entry with abstract and interactive three-dimensional views, including functional sites and ligands (> 50,000 pages), plus several dozen well-developed higher-level pages (such as hemoglobin) | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
iSee | To communicate the results of the SGC and ideally of other groups that purchase the software | Results of the Structural Genomics Consortium (about 400 datapacks available) | No* | No | No† | Yes | No‡ |
Kinemage | To communicate scientific illustrations as interactive computer displays | Estimated to be in the thousands for a wide variety of proteins and biomacromolecules, and created by a diverse group of authors | No* | No | No† | Yes | Yes |
TOPSAN | An annotation platform limited to the targets of the Protein Structure Initiative | Small subset of structural genomics results (< 2,000 pages) | Yes | No | Yes § | No | No |
PDBWiki | A community annotated knowledge base of biological molecular structures | One-to-one mapping of the PDB with additional links and images (> 50,000 pages) | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | No |