[chimerax-users] Virtual Crash Course - Understanding PDBx/mmCIF | May 3rd | REGISTER NOW!

[Brian Hudson]

Use PDB data to their full extent: Understanding PDBx/mmCIF

Wednesday, May 3rd 2023 | 1:00 PM EDT

Registration: go.rutgers.edu/u3vpwjet <https://go.rutgers.edu/u3vpwjet>


* This RCSB Protein Data Bank (PDB) virtual course will be broadcast on 
Zoom. Please fill out the registration form to receive the Zoom link. 
Registration will be available online from March 1, 2023 to May 3, 2023.


LEARNING OBJECTIVES

Understand the basics of PDBx/mmCIF data dictionary and file format that 
underpin archiving of more than 200,000 experimentally determined 
three-dimensional biostructures in the PDB. Learn about software tools 
for generating and working with PDBx/mmCIF files, and programmatic 
access for harvesting PDB data. Main topics:

  * PDBx/mmCIF format description and examples
  * PDBx/mmCIF data model
  * Software tools for generating, editing, and visualizing PDBx/mmCIF files
  * PDBx/mmCIF dictionary extensions, including ModelCIF for computed
    structure models (CSM) from AI/ML
  * Parsing data from PDBx/mmCIF files for your research



WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Professionals and graduate students interested in learning about 
strategies to take full advantage of PDB data in the fields of:

  * Structural biology
  * Cheminformatics and computational chemistry
  * Bioinformatics and computational biology



PROGRAM | Download Printable Program 
<https://iqb.rutgers.edu/sites/iqb.rutgers.edu/files/crashcourses/mmCIF-crash-course.pdf>


1:00–1:10 PM Welcome
Stephen K. Burley, M.D., D.Phil.
Director, RCSB PDB and Founding Director,
Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine, Rutgers University

1:10–1:25 PM Introduction and course objectives
Gregg Crichlow, Ph.D., RCSB PDB, Rutgers University

1:25–1:45 PM PDBx/mmCIF format - Not your parents’ legacy PDB format
Ezra Peisach, Ph.D., RCSB PDB, Rutgers University

1:45–2:05 PM PDBx/mmCIF data files - Lifting the lid off the black box
Brian Hudson, Ph.D., RCSB PDB, Rutgers University

2:05–2:50 PM Programmatic data access and analysis using PDBx/mmCIF files
Irina Persikova, Ph.D. and Chenghua Shao, Ph.D.,
RCSB PDB, Rutgers University

2:50–3:00 PM Closing remarks and acknowledgements
Stephen K. Burley, M.D., D.Phil.


Development and management of the PDBx/mmCIF data dictionary is a 
collaborative effort involving RCSB PDB, Worldwide Protein Data Bank 
(wwPDB, wwPDB.org <http://www.wwpdb.org/>) partners, and members of the 
wwPDB PDBx/mmCIF Working Group (wwpdb.org/task/mmcif 
<https://www.wwpdb.org/task/mmcif>).


CO-ORGANIZERS

RCSB PDB Biocurators: Gregg Crichlow, Justin Flatt, Sutapa Ghosh, Brian 
Hudson, Yuhe Liang, Ezra Peisach, Irina Persikova, Monica Sekharan, 
Chenghua Shao, Jasmine Young
(Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey).


QUESTIONS

Contact Michelle Sanghera msanghera at iqb.rutgers.edu


CO-SPONSORS

RCSB Protein Data Bank
rcsb.org <https://www.rcsb.org/>
RCSB PDB is managed by Rutgers, UCSD/SDSC, and UCSF.
RCSB PDB is supported by grants from the NSF (DBI-1832184), the US DoE 
(DE-SC0019749), and the NIH (R01GM133198).
RCSB PDB is a founding member of the wwPDB.

Institute for Quantitative Biomedicine
iqb.rutgers.edu <https://iqb.rutgers.edu/>