Proteopedia:About: Difference between revisions

Currently, Proteopedia has {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} [[Special:Allpages | articles]] (pages), and {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} [[Special:Listusers | registered users]]. Proteopedia contains one page for every entry in the [http://www.wwpdb.org World Wide Protein Data Bank], which contained >139,000 entries in April, 2018. Proteopedia is updated weekly with new entries shortly after they are released by the Protein Data Bank. Most of these pages, which are titled with a four-character [[PDB code|PDB identification code]], are "seeded" automatically to include a default view of the [[Biological Unit|quaternary assembly]] ("biological unit", or if not provided by [[PDBe]], the [[asymmetric unit]]), the abstract of the publication, green links to highlight sites and ligands, and molecule-specific links to other viewers and databases. If you click "Random" in the "navigation" box at the upper left, usually you will get an article titled with a PDB code, since they outnumber human-authored articles.

In addition to one machine-generated page about each entry in the Protein Data Bank (PDB identification code-titled pages), there are  human-authored ''articles'' titled with the name of a molecule or a subject, instead of a PDB identification code.  In April, 2018, there were >2,900 human-authored articles. Some of these articles that have substantial content are listed at [[Proteopedia:Topic_Pages | Topic Pages]], or you can browse a [[Special:Allpages/a | complete list of articles not titled with a PDB identification code]]. There are also articles [[About Macromolecular Structure]].

Proteopedia was built with [http://mediawiki.org Mediawiki], which was adapted by the Proteopedia team for macromolecular scene authoring and other special features. Proteopedia uses the [http://wiki.jmol.org/index.php/MediaWiki Jmol Extension to MediaWiki] created by Nicolas Vervelle and adapted by the [[Proteopedia:Team|Proteopedia team]]. The [http://www.jmol.org Jmol java applet] is used to render the rotatable, zoomable macromolecular scenes. The [http://kinemage.biochem.duke.edu/software/javamage.php MageJava] applet, by Jane and Dave Richardson is used to display kinemages.

Proteopedia was created in 2007 at the Weizmann Institute of Science by three initial [[Proteopedia:Team#Proteopedia_Founders_.26_Developers|founders and developers]]. Subsequent [[Proteopedia:Team|team members]] have helped make it what it is today.  Proteopedia is supported by [http://www.weizmann.ac.il/ISPC The Israel Structural Proteomics Center] at the [http://www.weizmann.ac.il Weizmann Institute of Science], Rehovot, Israel. [[Jmol]] has been made what it is today by [http://jmol.sourceforge.net/history/ many dedicated volunteers] working for many years. Notable credit goes to