Proteopedia

URL	proteopedia.org
Slogan	Life in 3D
Commercial?	No
Type of site	Online encyclopedia
Available language(s)	English
Created by	Joel L. Sussman, Eran Hodis, and Jaime Prilusky
Launched	2007
Current status	Perpetual work-in-progress

Proteopedia is a wiki encyclopedia of proteins and other molecules. The site contains a page for every entry in the Protein Data Bank (>50,000 pages), as well as pages that are more descriptive of protein structures in general, e.g. Proteopedia Photosystem_II, Proteopedia Acetylcholinesterase and Proteopedia Hemoglobin, with a Jmol view that highlights functional sites and ligands. It employs a scene-authoring tool so that users do not have to learn Jmol script language to create customized molecular scenes. Custom scenes are easily attached to "green links" in descriptive text that display those scenes in Jmol. A web browser is all that is needed to access the site and the 3D information, i.e. there are no downloadable viewers required to install and run. All user-added content is free and covered by the GNU Free Documentation License.

[edit] References

• Proteopedia - a scientific 'wiki' bridging the rift between 3D structure and function of biomacromolecules, Eran Hodis, Jaime Prilusky, Eric Martz, Israel Silman, John Moult, and Joel L. Sussman, Genome Biology, August 2008

[edit] See also

• PDBWiki
• Protein structure

[edit] External links

• Proteopedia website

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