From bronze!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!olivea!bionet!PB3.PDB.BNL.GOV!ABOLA Wed Apr 8 21:59:13 EST 1992 Article: 643 of bionet.molbio.genbank Path: bronze!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!spool.mu.edu!olivea!bionet!PB3.PDB.BNL.GOV!ABOLA From: ABOLA@PB3.PDB.BNL.GOV Newsgroups: bionet.molbio.genbank Subject: Prerelease of PDB entries Message-ID: <920408223407.402@PB3.PDB.BNL.GOV> Date: 9 Apr 92 02:34:07 GMT Article-I.D.: PB3.920408223407.402 Sender: daemon@genbank.bio.net Distribution: bionet Lines: 74 Protein Data Bank Announcement on Pre-release of Pending Entries The PDB is instituting new procedures designed to expedite the release of all status P atomic coordinate entries. A category of entries called pre-release entries will be available immediately on the PDB e-mail server and anonymous FTP as well as from affiliated distribution centers belonging to the Protein Data Bank Service Association (PDBSA). The objective of pre-release is to make pending entries readily available to the scientific community. These entries contain atomic coordinate data and a limited number of PDB record types useful in identifying the deposition. All other details will be provided when the standard release entry becomes available. Pre-release entries may not fully conform to the specifications given in the Protein Data Bank Atomic Coordinate and Bibliographic Entry Format Description. For example, residue and atom names for heterogens may not be in the PDB standard format. Changes to these names may therefore occur when the standard release entry becomes available. The following checks have been made for all pre-release entries: 1.Amino acid sequence for proteins compared to the non-redundant sequence database using the GENINFO computing environment (National Center for Biotechnology Information, National Library of Medicine). 2.Stereochemistry including: Bond distances and angles Distortions of planar groups Ramachandran plot 3.Crystal packing. A visual check of each entry has been made using MidasPlus (Computer Graphics Laboratory, University of California, San Francisco). In the future, submitted coordinate data sets will be made available through pre-release immediately after the above checks have been made and once depositors have given their approval to release the entry. __________________ Protein Data Bank File Server and Anonymous FTP The PDB has an e-mail file server available for your use. This server provides PDB general information and documentation files. For more information, send an e-mail message to fileserv@pb1.pdb.bnl.gov and include the following text: send info your_e-mail_address. The PDB has an anonymous FTP account available on the system pdb.pdb.bnl.gov with Internet address 130.199.144.1. It is possible to transfer files to and from this system using anonymous as the FTP user name and your real user name as the password. PDB general information and documentation files, as well as pre-release atomic coordinate entries, are available for downloading. You also can upload any files that you may wish to send to the PDB. Those using VMS may need to place quotes around file names. Anyone experiencing problems or having questions related to the above network services is requested to send an e-mail message to skora@bnl.gov. ________________________________________________________________ | enrique e. abola | BITNET: abola@bnlchm Protein Data Bank | INTERNET: abola@pb3.chm.bnl.gov Department of Chemistry | (516)-282-4383 Brookhaven National Laboratory | Upton NY 11973 | ________________________________________________________________