PDB-REDO as data source for refinement, validation and more - Robbie Joosten
PDB-REDO is a comprehensive software pipeline for automatically refining, rebuilding and validating crystallographic structure models. It is freely available to practising crystallographers, but the software is also applied to all PDB entries which has lead to the PDB-REDO databank at pdb-redo.eu. This databank has become a unique repository of structure models that are refined with a consistent process which greatly reduces the effect of PDB entries being created by different people, in different eras, with different methods.
As such, the PDB-REDO databank is a very nice resource to learn more about the many facets of macromolecular structure. Here, we discuss some of its applications in methods for refinement, validation and improving the completeness of (computational) models.