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Image of a heme in hemoglobin structure 4hhb created with Ligand Explorer.

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Image from the Molecule of the Month article on Transfer-Messenger RNA.

Create or download publication-quality pictures of biomacromolecules with the RCSB PDB.

Several interactive, Java-based tools¹ can be used to visualize PDB data and create pictures.  Protein Workshop offers easily customized views; Simple Viewer utilizes a quick ribbon display; and Ligand Explorer visualizes the interactions of bound ligands in protein and nucleic acids structures.

Each program can be used to create and save high-resolution images in JPEG, PNG, and TIFF formats. Using the Save Image dialog box from the File menu, users can specify the width and height of an image in pixels, inches, or millimeters.

From the educational PDB-101 site, high resolution TIFFs of Molecule of the Month illustrations can be downloaded and used in presentations and publications. The high resolution files are linked from each article, and available as an archive.

PDB-101 posters, including The Structural Biology of HIV and Molecular Machinery: A Tour of the Protein Data Bank, can be saved as high or low resolution PDFs.

Citation and usage information can be found here. 

¹J.L. Moreland, A.Gramada, O.V. Buzko, Q. Zhang and P.E. Bourne (2005) The Molecular Biology Toolkit (MBT): A modular platform for developing molecular visualization applications BMC Bioinformatics 6:21.  

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