Main Page
This is a testing environment for PDBHandler, a MediaWiki extension that enables interactive 3D models of proteins and DNA.
Try it out
You'll need to do two quick things to use this feature:
- Create an account.
- In 'My preferences' on the upper-right corner of the page, go to the 'Appearance' tab, scroll down to the 'Advanced options' section, and toggle on 'Enable interactive 3D structures'.
Now you're good to go. You'll need a browser that supports WebGL, which includes all browsers on desktops (except Internet Explorer) and browsers on some newer smartphones (e.g., the Samsung Galaxy S3). If your browser doesn't support WebGL, then you'll see a static image of the protein.
Interact with a protein structure
- Go to the FOXP2 page, and rotate the 3D protein model in the upper-right corner by clicking and dragging it around with your mouse.
Upload a new structure
- Download a PDB file, either directly from this list or from the Protein Data Bank.
- Upload the PDB file to this test wiki.
- Interact with the file, and add it to an article here with a wikilink of the form [[File:2A07.pdb]].
More information
PDBHandler uses WebGL and GLmol to transform 3D atomic coordinate data in PDB files -- a file format widely used in structural biology -- into structural models that users can rotate and zoom into in 3D. Even more information on this MediaWiki extension can be found at http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:PDBHandler.
