Macromolecular Modeling Blog ™

NCBI’s PubMed has recently added a useful feature for those working with protein structures. When featuring a specific abstract, besides the more familliar “Related articles” you can now find a “Structures reported by this article” pane, with a small illustration, PDB code and even the structure’s resolution.

Anyone who found himself scanning a paper for a desired PDB id, must feel a warm sensation in the chest towards this feature. Perfection is in the details, way to go pubmed.

Pubmed's Reported Structures Feature

I received an important email alert from NCBI today about a cutting edge, protein science publication by D. Baker. This publication along with the passage of prop 2 in California earlier this month are positive steps towards getting more chicks to become macromolecular modelers.

Is it possible on PubMed to filter author’s names by their institutional affiliations?

Are there more advanced literature search engines with email alert capabilities?

What are your favorite literature search engines?