CCL: The PDBbind database version 2009 is now released

 Sent to CCL by: "Zhihai  Liu" [liuhai++mail.sioc.ac.cn]
 Dear researchers,
 The PDBbind database aims at providing a comprehensive collection of
 experimentally measured binding affinity data for all biomolecular complexes
 deposited in the Protein Data Bank. Since its first public release in 2004, this
 database has been used by thousands of researchers all across the world. This
 database is now upadted annually by our group to keep up with the growth of the
 Protein Data Bank.
 Here, we are happy to announce another release of the PDBbind database, i.e.
 version 2009. This version provides binding affinity data and structural
 information for a total of 5,678 biomolecular complexes, including
 protein-ligand (4277), nucleic acid-ligand (44), protein-nucleic acid (304), and
 protein-protein complexes (1053), which is the largest collection of this kind
 so far. Binding data included in version 2009 have increased by 30% as compared
 to version 2008. All of these data are collected from original references by
 ourselves. They all have been double-checked to ensure that they match the
 complex structures in the Protein Data Bank.
 The PDBbind version 2009 is now available on the PDBbind-CN server at http://www.pdbbind.org.cn/. The basic information of each
 complex in PDBbind is totally open for browsing. Users are required to register
 with a license agreement if they want to use the full functions provided on our
 web site. Registration is free of charge to all academic and industrial users.
 We also love to hear your comments so that we can do a better job for next
 release!
 Best regards,
 Prof. Renxiao Wang
 Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
 Chinese Academy of Sciences
 Shanghai, P. R. China