BDB

Databank of PDB files with consistent B-factors

Touw, Wouter G.
Vriend, Gert

¹Centre for Molecular and Biomolecular Informatics (CMBI), Radboud University Medical Center, Geert Grooteplein Zuid 26-28, 6525 GA Nijmegen, The Netherlands

To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: [email protected] (G.V)

Edited by Albert Berghuis

Received May 21, 2014

Received in revised form September 1, 2014

Accepted September 8, 2014

Protein Engineering, Design and Selection 27(11):p 457-462, November 2014. | DOI: 10.1093/protein/gzu044

Protein structures available from the PDB contain for each atom the coordinates, the occupancy and the B-factor that indicates the mobility of the atom. The values that should represent B-factors can relate to atomic motions in different ways. We present here a databank in which all B-factors have been converted to the one, homogeneous representation that is most useful for protein engineering applications. The Databank of PDB files with consistent B-factors (BDB) is freely available through http://www.cmbi.umcn.nl/bdb/.