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I have changed the

Greg — Tue, 03 Apr 2007 01:41:42 -0400

I have changed the permissions for adding weblinks, so now any registered user can submit a weblink. Once a weblink has been approved it will immediately show up in the blogroll.

Feeds should be useful

Neil — Sat, 31 Mar 2007 01:52:14 -0400

I don't think much of that PDB LastLoad feed - it just provides a list of PDB IDs. The other feeds mentioned provide much more useful information.

I've recently been thinking about feeds in this context. RCSB provide a database called TargetDB in XML format which is a list of targets worked on by structural genomics consortia worldwide. It would be useful to have these data available such that other workers could easily scan the list and drop targets from their list if someone else was working on it. Whether RSS is the way to go with this, I'm not sure. I like the idea from a coding point of view - it would be easy to transform the XML into RSS using e.g. XML::RSS in Perl.

Take your protein pills and put your helment on

Duncan — Fri, 30 Mar 2007 05:49:35 -0400

Protein spotlight also has a feed, as does bio-curious, they might be worth adding to nodalpoints blogroll?

Off the month

Animesh — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 14:19:35 -0400

First I thought it was some post about food enrichment, may be I am hungry!
Thanks Duncan for the nice post, I had that PDB feed but somehow never walked that lane! I especially liked the Expasy link which I was not aware of.
I would also like to direct nodalpointer's to the RSS feed for latest additions to the PDB structures, http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/rss/LastLoad .
Ani

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This month's molecule is...

Duncan — Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:39:21 -0400

There are a number of "Molecule of the Month" style mini-reviews on the web, which highlight one particular molecule (usually a protein) every month, in an accessible style. Two of my personal favourites are protein spotlight: one month, one protein written by Vivienne Baillie Gerritsen of the Swiss-Prot team and Molecule of the Month at the Protein Databank PDB edited by David Goodsell. Both these features are worth a quick read because they can help bio-literate and bio-curious users to increase and reinforce their knowledge relatively quickly.