The "Molecule of the hour" program shows a different PDB entry on your Windows wallpaper/background every hour. It also generates a little HTML page to get to the actual data whenever an interesting structure drifts by.

Requires:

• Windows
• Python 2.3 or higher
• Ctypes module
• Image module of the free version of library PIL (Python Imaging Library)
• Python "Molecule of the hour" program (~ a hundred lines of code).
• Set a temporary path at the top of the program

Todo: Please let me know if you can port the code to your favorite OS like Linux.

Please use these images as you please and reference the relevant papers:

• Berman,H.M., Westbrook,J., Feng,Z., Gilliland,G., Bhat,T.N., Weissig,H., Shindyalov,I.N. and Bourne,P.E. (2000). The Protein Data Bank. Nucleic Acids Res. 28, 235-242.
• Bernstein,F.C., Koetzle,T.F., Williams,G.J., Meyer,E.E., Jr., Brice,M.D., Rodgers,J.R., Kennard,O., Shimanouchi,T. and Tasumi,M. (1977). The Protein Data Bank: a computer-based archival file for macromolecular structures. J. Mol. Biol. 112, 535-542.
• Doreleijers,J.F., Mading,S., Maziuk,D., Sojourner,K., Yin,L., Zhu,J., Markley,J.L. and Ulrich,E.L. (2003). BioMagResBank database with sets of experimental NMR constraints corresponding to the structures of over 1400 biomolecules deposited in the Protein Data Bank. J. Biomol. NMR 26, 139-146.
• Koradi,R., Billeter,M. and Wuthrich,K. (1996). MOLMOL: a program for display and analysis of macromolecular structures. J. Mol. Graph. 14, 51-55.
• Ulrich,E.L., Ioannidis,Y.E., Livny,M., Mading,S., Slatter,N.C. and Markley,J.L. (1998). BioMagResBank: A Resource Integrating Structure, Dynamics, and Chemistry. XVIIth International Conference on Magnetic Resonance in Biological Systems. Tokyo, Japan.

This overview was generated on: Mon Jun 8 08:07:57 2015