About Genus/Species Classification

The major part of the taxonomic information is taken from the taxonomy database maintained by NCBI. This means that the genius/species classification may differ from the information given in the PDB SOURCE record. This also means that the taxonomic information given here differs from the genus/species list of the SWISS-PROT/PDB cross references. For all entries not included in the NCBI database, for example model and also some other structures, first the SOURCE record of the PDB file and if this fails the OS record of SWISS-PROT are used. The naming scheme was unified according to the NCBI scientific name, but the search option allows to search for common names and alternative scientific names. If structures contain sequences from different species they are included in the lists for all of these species. Any sequences be they synthetic or not, for which no species information can be extracted, are classified as not assigned. When comparing the figures given in this genus/species classification to the data provided by PDBsum note that PDBsum includes superseded entries. [Close]