!Hola!
About 6 years ago I noted a couple of structures I was interested in were
removed from the pdb. I saw in a recent email discussion that it is possible
to access obsolete entries, however unfortunately I do not have the pdb code
of the structure I am interested in - and neither does the original
publication list the pdb code. Is there a way of searching
withdrawn/obsolete entries for author name, macromolecule etc. or are
structures that were withdrawn over 5 years ago lost for good?
Actually, you can. Tom Oldfield has written a web interface to query the PDBe
search database directly using SQL - it lives here:
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe-as/pdbedatabase/
If you want to look for obsoleted entries by molecule name, paste the
following into the SQL box:
Select * from pdb_status WHERE status_code in ('OBS') and
upper(TITLE) like '%ISOMERASE%';
Hit the "Submit SQL" button and you will get a list of hits with the word
"ISOMERASE" in their title. Hit the "Get" (Text) button to save the complete
list of hits.
If you know one of the authors, try the following query instead:
Select * from pdb_status WHERE status_code in ('OBS') and
upper(AUTHOR_LIST) like '%JONES%';
!No hay de que!
--Gerard
