Bioeditor - A Tool For Structure Annotation

Authors: Peng Yang, Paul A. Craig, Philip E. Bourne

Institution: San Diego Supercomputing Center, UCSD, La Jolla, CA 92093-0505

Overview: Once a macromolecular structure has been determined, the challenge is to communicate that information to a widely diverse audience of scientists, educators and students. Current options include the printed literature and dissemination over the Internet, either via online journals or directly on personal web pages. Printed literature has the advantage of wide acceptance and availability, but presents static images. Web pages can be powerful, but lack a uniform format. Furthermore, any dynamic images that are presented are subject to the whims of the providers of the browsers and plug-ins that are required to view them. At the University of California, San Diego and the Scripps Institute, we are developing the Bioeditor as a tool to bridge the gap between the printed literature and current Internet presentation formats. It is a standalone Windows application that can be used to prepare and present structure annotations containing formatted text, graphics, sequence data, and interactive molecular views. This presentation will summarize the features of Bioeditor and provide an overview of a series of annotations that have been developed on DNA-protein complexes.

Summary

• Bridging the Gap
• Features of Bioeditor

• Future Plans for Bioeditor

This project is supported by the National Science Foundation (NSF DBI-9904796 for PY and PEB; NSF DBI-0132856 for PAC).