Abstract The Protein Data Bank (PDB) is the world-wide repository of macromolecular
structure information. We present a series of databases that run parallel to the PDB. Each
database holds one entry, if possible, for each PDB entry. DSSP holds the secondary
structure of the proteins. PDBREPORT holds reports on the structure quality and lists errors.
HSSP holds a multiple sequence alignment for all proteins. The PDBFINDER holds easy to
parse summaries of the PDB file content, augmented with essentials from the other systems …

We present a series of databanks (http://swift. cmbi. ru. nl/gv/facilities/) that hold information
that is computationally derived from Protein Data Bank (PDB) entries and that might
augment macromolecular structure studies. These derived databanks run parallel to the
PDB, ie they have one entry per PDB entry. Several of the well-established databanks such
as HSSP, PDBREPORT and PDB_REDO have been updated and/or improved. The
software that creates the DSSP databank, for example, has been rewritten to better cope …