User:PDBbot

This user account is a pywiki-based bot operated by Emw (talk). It is not a sock puppet, but rather an automated or semi-automated account for making repetitive edits that would be extremely tedious to do manually. Administrators: if this bot is malfunctioning or causing harm, please block it. tasks • contribs • count • logs • page moves • block user • block log • flag log • global contribs • flag bot

PDBbot is an approved bot written in Python. It uses the pywikipedia framework to intermittently automate uploads of high-quality protein structure images. While active, its maximum edit rate is four edits per minute. Please send any suggestions or concerns to the bot's operator, Emw.

The bot has uploaded several thousand images, which are probably best viewed by going to PDBbot's gallery. Below is a small selection of those images:

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  BRCA1, involved in breast cancer
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  XRCC4, involved in DNA repair
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  H2AFV, involved DNA coiling
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  HOXD9, involved in body layout (morphogenesis)
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  GDF5, involved in skeletal development
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  WDR5, involved in signal transduction
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  DMC1, involved in meiosis
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  RAD52, involved in DNA repair
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  ACVR2B, involved in cell signaling
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  LINGO1, involved in structure of neurons