Instruction for PDB tracker


0. Introduction

Welcome to use PDB tracker.

PDB tracker is a semi-automatic tools for downloading and processing pdb files. It's convient for researchers to peel useful data from pdb files, and finally a information table, containing all the data you want, would be generated. So you can make your data comparing and ranking.

autodownloadPDB.rar

2. Environment & Workspace

We need Mathematica 7 or above to execute the program.
All input and output files should be placed under the root folder of the program and its subfolder.

3. Instruction for "ImportPDB.nb"

This program can be used to read some PDBID from [pathPDB], and download the correspoding PDB files from RCSB data bank to the path [dirPDB].

When the initial cell and main cell executed, the PDB files would be downloaded in succession.

Tips: the [pathPDB] is "example.list" in autodownloadPDB.rar, the [dirPDB] is "pdb" folder in autodownloadPDB.rar.

4. Instruction for "AnalysePDB.nb"

Analyse and fetch key Information (title, author, reference, etc.) from pdb file.
Merge and export data from pdb files to a information table.
And there are also some configurations.
Make sure all pdb files are downloaded before executing this program.

Tips:the key Information is "Infomation of some PDBs.xls" in autodownloadPDB.rar.