Model Validation and 'Healing'

John Westbrook

John Westbrook is a member of the RCSB PDB Project Team based at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey. His talk covered new developments with the wwPDB deposition and annotation services with particular emphasis on the validation tools that have been implemented. In addition, John discussed the transition ot the PDBx/mmCIF file format, contents of the wwPDB Validation reports, as well as ongoing efforts at wwPDB to develop community-based validation standards. John’s talk can be viewed here.

Acknowledgements

This venture would not be possible without generous funding from the ACA. We are grateful for the financial support. In addition, we would like to thank James Holton for continuing to provide logistical support. We are also indebted to our speakers for their time sharing experience and advice. Finally, thank you to Ms. Alyssa Crick for graphic design.