Structures, structures, and structures: Structural genomics of infectious disease drug targets: the SSGCID

Cool new data set available for those studying infectious disease.  See the paper: Structural genomics of infectious disease drug targets: the SSGCID

This is a large scale effort to determine crystal structure of importance for infectious disease studies.  And there is a whole series of papers coming out in "Acta Crystallographica Section F Structural Biology and Crystallization Communications"

Plus all the papers about these structures are freely available (though I note - they refer to these as "Open Access" but really they mean "Available at no charge"

Examples of papers include:

• Gene design, cloning and protein-expression methods for high-value targets at the Seattle Structural Genomics Center for Infectious Disease
• Immobilized metal-affinity chromatography protein-recovery screening is predictive of crystallographic structure success
• Structures of phosphopantetheine adenylyltransferase from Burkholderia pseudomallei
• Structures of a putative -class glutathione S-transferase from the pathogenic fungus Coccidioides immitis

And many more.  

Also see their press release here.