protein data bank web services

[sckott]

• What will the package do?

A client for getting data from the RCSB protein data bank

• Relevant links (For e.g. API docs, related software)

http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/software/rest.do

• Are there other related software?

not that I know of

• What is the target audience

molecular/cellular/evolutionary biologists

• Do you need help with development or are just suggesting the idea?

Suggesting

• what are some potential use cases?

Not sure as this isn't an area I know anything about...

[sckott]

Someone in this discipline would be an ideal maintainer

[cboettig]

Presumably there's stuff on Bioconductor already that does this? A quick look suggests that Rcpi and QuartPAC have functions that might already be hitting that API:

• https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/3.3/bioc/vignettes/Rcpi/inst/doc/Rcpi.pdf
• https://www.bioconductor.org/packages/3.3/bioc/manuals/QuartPAC/man/QuartPAC.pdf

Anyway, like you say, would need someone in the discipline to assess the situation.

[sckott]

Good point, forgot to look at Biocondctor!

[Ironholds]

Already did it - https://github.com/Ironholds/protein

I'm not in the discipline, so patches cleaning up descriptions or adding functionality are great :)

[maelle]

Thank you!

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