As part of the recent Midsummer Make-over of the Protein Data Bank in Europe
website (PDBe; http://pdbe.org/), we introduced a new Wizard tool. The purpose
of the Wizard is to help novice users find "stuff" on the site, be it one or
more PDB or EMDB entries or information about PDBe tools, resources,
tutorials, roadshows, formats, services, etc. In addition, it provides hints
about quicker ways of finding the same information in the future.
The Wizard first tries to figure out what you are looking for and what
information you already have. Based on that, it will either provide you with a
box to enter some input (e.g., a PDB code, author name or UniProt ID) and
start a search for you, or it will give you a link to a resource or service or
a page with more information.
Once you get to the stage where input is required, there will often be two
helpful buttons. One, labelled "Shortcut", will provide you with hints on how
you could do your search much quicker the next time you use the site. The
other, labelled "What results will I get?", does what its name suggests. There
is also a button labelled "Feedback" on most pages - please use it to provide
us with comments and suggestions.
You can access the Wizard by surfing to http://pdbe.org/wizard (or by surfing
to the PDBe homepage at pdbe.org and clicking on the tab marked "Wizard").
As always, we welcome comments and suggestions on new features (preferably
using the big, fat "FEEDBACK" button on the PDBe web pages).
--Gerard
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Gerard J. Kleywegt, PDBe, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK
ger...@ebi.ac.uk ..................... pdbe.org
Secretary: Pauline Haslam pdbe_ad...@ebi.ac.uk
