The PDBeShape website has been retired

You have followed an old link to the website of PDBeShape, but both the project and the website no longer exist. PDBeShape was a project funded by the EU's BioMedBridges project which aimed to build data bridges from biology to medicine. PDBeShape was a collaboration between the Elixir and Instruct research infrastructures, carried out jointly by EMBL-EBI and STFC.

The description on the now defunct website of what PDBeShape was and aimed to enable said:

"PDBeShape contains structural biology volume data obtained from electron microscopy, subtomogram averaging, crystallography, and potentially other techniques. Structural alignments between the volumes have been pre-calculated, and these can be searched in PDBeShape to find volumes with similar morphology. Differences between otherwise similar volumes are highlighted, and may reveal conformational changes or location of additional components. This first release contains high quality volume data for prokaryotic and eukaryotic ribosomes, and class I and II chaperonins, taken from EMDB and PDB. In later releases, we will include a wider range of volumes. To get started, enter the EMDB or PDB code of a volume of interest in the search box. Alternatively, you can use EMsearch or EMbrowse to look for suitable examples. After displaying an initial selection of results, you will be able to investigate further, looking for other matches, or varying search/scoring parameters."

Basically, the idea was to provide shape-based searches of EMDB and PDB, for instance to try and identify unidentified objects in a cryo-EM map or tomogram. Unfortunately, the technology was not there yet at the time of the project but the problem it hoped to address is still a highly relevant one!