PDBe is excited to announce some major new updates to our pages at We now have a new, streamlined 3D viewer (LiteMol) that enables visualisation of electron density in the browser with interactive changing of contour levels. For instance, check out retinoic acid in entry 1cbs.
The viewer also has options to view domain annotations (UniProt, CATH SCOP, Pfam, Interpro) and validation information from the wwPDB validation reports - see the annotations for entry 1cbs by clicking the hammer/spanner icon and selecting options in 'Domain Annotation'.
To see all the PDB entries for a given UniProt see “UniProt Coverage Viewerâ€� on the same page.Â
Initial feedback on the viewer is positive: one user describing it as “Superb 3D performance... you can visualize electron density in the browser as well as or better than molecular graphics programs. It works just as well on my ipad: it is amazing!�
LiteMol is developed by David Sehnal at and Mandar Deshpande at PDBe
