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Advanced Search Redesigned to Drive 3D Structure Discovery
01/22
RCSB PDB has released an updated Advanced Search interface to provide a cleaner, more intuitive experience while enhancing support for exploring 3D structures across both experimentally determined structures and Computed Structure Models (CSMs). Unlike the top-bar Basic Search, Advanced Search offers fine-grained control over which data fields to search, the type of search to perform, and how results are combined.
Advanced Search can query the PDB based on Structure Attributes, Sequence Similarity, Sequence Motif, 3D Similarity, and 3D Motif; RCSB PDB also offers Chemical Search and Browse Annotations tools.
3D Motif Search
Advanced Search now enables more efficient construction of complex queries, including 3D structural searches, along with seamless integration with interactive Mol* visualization. Users can select 3D structures (including chains, assemblies, or structural motifs) directly within the Mol* viewer for PDB structures, CSM entries, and user-uploaded coordinate files. Users can also select 3D motifs from a library of catalytic residues and build queries based on residues involved in ligand interactions.
3D Motif SearchChemical Search
The redesigned Chemical Search identifies small molecules in the PDB archive that are similar to a particular query. Small molecules are defined in the wwPDB's Chemical Component Dictionary (CCD) and the Biologically Interesting Molecule Reference Dictionary (BIRD). Chemical Search uses an integrated interactive chemical drawing tool and supports metadata-based searches such as chemical name or molecular weight.
Chemical Search: Chemical SimilarityRegister for the January 26 Webinar on Advanced Search
Join RCSB PDB's Yana Rose to learn about the redesigned features of Advanced Search.
