Image files (PNG format)

Mol* state files - these allow replication of the view within the
Mol* viewer

Metadata files (JSON format)

** *Dear all,* * The PDBe team, in collaboration with David Sehnal (NCBR, Masaryk University, Czech Republic), has developed a new data pipeline for generating images of macromolecular structures. The new tool, PDBImages, provides more consistent and scalable visualisation for a range of different macromolecular views. The PDBImages software is built using Mol* (https://molstar.org/viewer), a powerful, open-source software for interactive molecular visualisation in the browser. It leverages a 'headless' version of Mol*, enabling it to render images directly from the command line without a graphical interface. The use of Mol* provides many benefits to the pipeline, including the ease in generating images of large structures and the output of Mol* state files to enable interactive visualisation directly within the browser. PDBImages reads atomic XYZ coordinates from PDBx/mmCIF or binaryCIF files and constructs predefined views of the macromolecular structures. For each of these views it then outputs the following files: * Image files (PNG format) * Mol* state files - these allow replication of the view within the Mol* viewer * Metadata files (JSON format) If you are interested in using the PDBImages tool, it is available as an npm package (https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdb-images <https://www.npmjs.com/package/pdb-images>), with the code also available on GitHub (https://github.com/PDBeurope/pdb-images <https://github.com/PDBeurope/pdb-images>). Read more: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/news/pdbimages-new-open-source-macromolecular-structure-imaging-pipeline <https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/news/pdbimages-new-open-source-macromolecular-structure-imaging-pipeline>* -- David Armstrong Outreach and Training Lead PDBe European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) European Molecular Biology Laboratory Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SD UK