Protein Data Bank Editor

Advancements in technology have a considerable impact on day to day activities, as well as research and design areas of study. What's more, a computer packed with the right tools can replace various devices and tools. For a more scientific approach, Protein Data Bank Editor puts a simple environment at your disposal to create complex tables with protein data or edit existing ones.

The application does not require you to go through a setup process for proper functionality, which means you can take it along with your project files on a USB Flash drive to use on the go. You only need to make sure that the target PC is equipped with Java Runtime Environment.

For starters, you're taken to a blank canvas on which you can add multiple rows to fill in with different details that can be viewed as column headers suggest. Once a row is inserted, values only need to be written down in corresponding cells. In case you don't need all the default data, you can easily filter what to be displayed in the table.

If you happen to already have such data on your computer, you can use the open dialog to have it imported in the application, only if it's found under the PDB format. Several operations and calculus can be performed, with a new window popping up with corresponding options.

As result of different calculus methods, you can generate symmetry mates, rotate or translate atoms, extract the sequence represented by data, find closest atom distances, and reduce proteins to a few elements like Calcium or Polyalanine.

The table can suffer from several modifications in order to correct any mistakes or arrange info fields a little better. As such, you can edit spacegroups, unit cells, residue number and chain ID, atom connectivity, as well as having elements fixed according to atom names, correct ordering, or sort based on several custom criteria.

Since you get to work with an abundance of info fields, edit, selection, as well as deletion tools are packed with dedicated controls to make arrangement easier. Apart from manually dragging the cursor around items of interest, selection options can be used for a few special structures and elements, as well as having data automatically selected after performing a search operation.

Bottom line is that Protein Data Bank Editor is a lightweight and straightforward application which crystallographers can use to store and manage large quantities of data. Portability is a major advantage, while the specially-built tools to target structures and elements greatly enhance your workflow, as well as the overall experience.