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Screenshot of Summary Page tutorial.

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Screenshot of Advanced Search tutorial.

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Screenshot of Ligand Explorer tutorial.

OpenHelix, the provider of training on hundreds of free, publicly accessible bioinformatics and genomics resources, will provide a free webinar: Introduction to RCSB PDB on Wednesday, February 15th, at 11 a.m. PT/2:00 p.m. ET/18:00 UTC/GMT.

In the webinar, you'll learn how to use the features and functions needed to start using RCSB PDB effectively, including:

•  searching for structures and related information using a variety of strategies
•  understanding the results and structure summary pages and link to additional information
•  visualizing structures
•  customizing search results and website display

Register at www.openhelix.com/cgi/webinars.cgi.

OpenHelix has also updated their free, online training materials to reflect many new RCSB PDB features, including the top bar searching feature with category options, auto-complete feature, improved macromolecule name queries, and PDB-101.

In addition to a narrated tutorial, the animated PowerPoint slides used as a basis for the tutorial, handouts, and exercises are also available for download. This can save a tremendous amount time and effort for teachers and professors to create classroom content.  These files can be downloaded from www.openhelix.com/pdb.