Proteopedia

Proteopedia
Web address proteopedia.org
Slogan Life in 3D
Commercial? No
Type of site
 Online encyclopedia
Available in English
Created by Joel L. Sussman, Eran Hodis, and Jaime Prilusky
Launched 2007
Alexa rank
 negative increase 1,086,422 (April 2014)[1]
Current status Perpetual work-in-progress

Proteopedia is a wiki, 3D encyclopedia of proteins and other molecules.[2][3][4]<ref name=pmid"21536137">Prilusky, J; Hodis, E.; Canner, D.; Decatur, W. A.; Oberholser, K.; Martz, E.; Berchanski, A.; Harel, M.; Sussman, J. L. (Aug 2011). "Proteopedia: A status report on the collaborative, 3D web-encyclopedia of proteins and other biomolecules". Journal of Structural Biology 175 (2): 244–252. doi:10.1016/j.jsb.2011.04.011. PMID 21536137.</ref> The site contains a page for every entry in the Protein Data Bank (>100,000 pages), as well as pages that are more descriptive of protein structures in general such as acetylcholinesterase,[5] hemoglobin,[6] and the photosystem II[7] 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; no viewers are required to be installed.

Proteopedia was the winner of the 2010 award for the best website by The Scientist magazine.[8]

Legal aspects

Licensing terms

All user-added content is free and covered by the GNU Free Documentation License. Proteopedia is hosted at the Israel Structural Proteomics Center [9] at the Weizmann Institute of Science.


See also

References

  1. ↑ "Proteopedia.org Site Info". Alexa Internet. Retrieved 2014-04-01.
  2. ↑ Hodis E, Prilusky J, Martz E, Silman I, Moult J, Sussman JL (2008). "Proteopedia - a scientific 'wiki' bridging the rift between three-dimensional structure and function of biomacromolecules". Genome Biol. 9 (8): R121. doi:10.1186/gb-2008-9-8-r121. PMC 2575511. PMID 18673581.
  3. ↑ Martz E (2009). "Proteopedia.Org: a scientific "Wiki" bridging the rift between 3D structure and function of biomacromolecules". Biopolymers 92 (1): 76–7. doi:10.1002/bip.21126. PMID 19117028.
  4. ↑ Hodis E, Prilusky J, Sussman JL (2010). "Proteopedia: A collaborative, virtual 3D web-resource for protein and biomolecule structure and function". Biochem. Mol. Biol. Educ. 38 (5): 341–2. doi:10.1002/bmb.20431.
  5. ↑ "Acetylcholinesterase". Proteopedia.
  6. ↑ "Hemoglobin". Proteopedia.
  7. ↑ "Photosystem II". Proteopedia.
  8. ↑ Luiggi C (September 2010). "Web Gems Introducing the winners of the first annual Labbies, our prizes for the best web-based multimedia by labs: Website Winner:Proteopedia". The Scientist 24 (9): 47. Very absorbing. Kept me looking and playing (and learning) with it for a long time. Very informative and a good resource.
  9. ↑ "The Israel Structural Proteomics Center".

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