mx computational software-dev glycoscience
Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
Info
Institute of Veterinary Physiology and Biochemistry, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany. Developer of pdb-care (PDB Carbohydrate REsidue check), a validation tool for complex carbohydrate/glycan structures in PDB files. Roughly 30% of PDB entries containing carbohydrates historically had errors; pdb-care was a foundational tool for glycan validation, with the lineage continuing through PDB-REDO glycan handling and Privateer.
Key Relationships
- pdb-care / CARP — carbohydrate validation tools predating PDB-REDO’s glycan support
- Glycan-validation community connection to Anastassis Perrakis and Robbie P. Joosten on PDB-REDO
- X-Ray Validation Task Force member (Read et al., Structure 2011)
Sources
- pdb-care paper: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC441419/
- Making glycoproteins sweeter with PDB-REDO: https://journals.iucr.org/f/issues/2018/08/00/va5010/