Dear CCP4BB
Carbohydrates, even when formed from very few sugar units, can often be
hard to interpret in three dimensions when all their atoms are shown.
This week, PDBe have updated the 3D structure viewer (LiteMol) on our
web pages to add a simpler representation of common pyranose sugars.
for example pdbe.org/5ezi
Approximately 10% of entries in the PDB archive contain some form of
carbohydrate - that’s around 13.5 thousand PDB entries! We hope that
adding this new feature will help users to see them more clearly.
See https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/about/news/clearer-3d-view-sugars for
further details
John
PDBe
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John Berrisford
PDBe
European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI)
European Molecular Biology Laboratory
Wellcome Trust Genome Campus
Hinxton
Cambridge CB10 1SD UK
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