The Energy Distribution Data Bank: Collecting Energy Features of Protein Molecular Structures

The analysis of structural and energy features of proteins can be a key to understand how proteins work and interact to each other in cellular reactions. Potential energy is a function of atomic positions in a protein structure. The distributions of energy over each atom in protein structures can be very supportive for the studies of the complex processes proteins are involved in. Energy profiles contain distributions of different potential energies in protein molecular structures. Therefore, they constitute a full descriptor of energy properties for protein structures. The Energy Distribution Data Bank (EDB, http://edb.aei.polsl.pl) stores energy profiles for protein molecular structures retrieved from the well-known Protein Data Bank. In the paper, we describe the purpose of the EDB, a possible use of the information stored in it, query possibilities, and plans for future development.