- <p>
- <strong>Viewing PDB Structures</strong>
- </p>
- Jalview can be used to view protein structures by following the steps below:
- <ol>
- <li>Select the <strong>"View Structure"</strong> option from a
- sequence's <a href="../menus/popupMenu.html">pop-up menu</a> to invoke the <a href="structurechooser.html">Structure Chooser</a> interface.
- <ul>
- <li>If one or more structures exists for the given sequence, the <a href="structurechooser.html">Structure Chooser</a>
- dialogue is opened with a list of the found structures meta-data.</li>
- <li>However, if no structure was found, the <a href="structurechooser.html">Structure Chooser</a> interface is opened with options for manual association of PDB structures.</li>
- </ul>
- </li>
- <li>Choose the structure to view from the discovered list. This can be done either manually by clicking directly
- on the desired structure(s) in the list, or automatically by
- using the drop-down menu on the interface to filter and auto-select the best structure based on certain
- criteria like quality, resolution, etc.</li>
- <li>When the desired structure(s) have been selected, they can be
- viewed by clicking the <strong>"View"</strong> button below the summary list.
- </li>
+ <p>
+ <strong>Discovering and Viewing PDB Structures</strong>
+ </p>
+ Jalview can be used to explore the 3D structures of sequences in an
+ alignment by following the steps below:
+ <ol>
+ <li>Select the <strong>"3D Structure Data..."</strong> option
+ from a sequence's <a href="../menus/popupMenu.html">pop-up
+ menu</a> to open the <a href="structurechooser.html">Structure
+ Chooser</a> dialog box.
+ <ul>
+ <li>If one or more structures exists for the given
+ sequence, the <a href="structurechooser.html">Structure
+ Chooser</a> dialog will open with them listed in the results
+ pane.
+ </li>
+ <li>However, if no structure was found, the <a
+ href="structurechooser.html">Structure Chooser</a> interface
+ will present options for manual association of PDB structures.
+ </li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><strong>Selecting Structures</strong><br />You can select
+ the structures that you want to open and view by selecting them with
+ the mouse and keyboard.<br />By default, if structures were
+ discovered, then some will already be selected according to the
+ criteria shown in the drop-down menu. The default criteria is
+ 'highest resolution', simply choose another to pick structures in
+ a different way.<br />
+ <ul>
+ <li><strong>Viewing Cached Structures</strong><br />If you
+ have previously downloaded structures for your sequences, they
+ can be viewed by selecting the <strong>Cached PDB
+ Entries</strong> option from the drop down menu at the top of the
+ dialog box.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ <li><strong>To view selected structures, click the <strong>"View"</strong>
+ button.</strong><br />
+ <ul>
+ <li>Additional structure data will be downloaded with the
+ EMBL-EBI's dbfetch service</li>
+ <li><a href="siftsmapping.html">SIFTS</a> records will also
+ be downloaded for mapping UniProt protein sequence data to PDB
+ coordinates.</li>
+ </ul></li>
+ </ol>