pSSdb - Protein Secondary Structure Database 

Created by Lukasz P. Kozlowski
Institute of Informatics, University of Warsaw
Contact: lukaszkozlowski.lpk@gmail.com 

Version 1.0 released 04.2024

==== License ====
pSSdb database is distributed under Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/)

This means that you are free to copy, distribute, display and make commercial use
of these databases in all legislations, provided you "give us credit".

However, if you intend to distribute a modified version of one of our databases, you must
ask us for permission first.

==== Disclaimer ====
pSSdb database curators make no warranties regarding the correctness of the data, and disclaim
liability for damages resulting from its use. We cannot provide unrestricted permission
regarding the use of the data, as some data may be covered by patents or other rights.

Any medical or genetic information is provided for research, educational and informational
purposes only. It is not in any way intended to be used as a substitute for professional
medical advice, diagnosis, treatment or care.

==== Privacy policy ====
Data submitted through this website will never be shared with any other third parties.
We reserve the right to use information about visitors (IP addresses), date/time visited,
page visited, referring website, etc. for site usage statistics and to improve our services.

==== Citation ====
You will acknowledge the database Author on any publication of scientific results based in
part on use of pSSdb database and cite the article in which the database was described:

Kozlowski LP. pSSdb: Protein Secondary Structure Database (submitted).

==== Acknowledgments & Financial Support ====

Hardware Funding: The website and the backend are using the server funded by National Science 
Centre, Poland [2018/29/B/NZ2/01403]. Additionally, I gratefully acknowledge Pawel Strzelecki & 
Lukasz Kowalik (MIMUW, ~$2.8k from the university statutory funds for 60TB RAID disks). 

I gratefully acknowledge Poland's high-performance computing infrastructure PLGrid 
(HPC Centers: ACK Cyfronet AGH) for providing computer facilities and support within 
computational grants no. PLG/2023/016126 & PLG/2023/016128 (Allocation@Ares: 2.6M CPUh, 
50k GPUh; @Athena 425k GPUh). 

I acknowledge Polish high-performance computing infrastructure PLGrid for awarding this 
project access to the LUMI supercomputer, owned by the EuroHPC Joint Undertaking, hosted by 
CSC (Finland) and the LUMI consortium through grant no. PLL/2023/05/016753 (Allocation@LUMI 
[3rd fastest supercomputer in the world]: 10M CPUh, 500k GPUh). 

Some experiments were performed using the Entropy cluster funded by NVIDIA, Intel, 
the Polish National Science Center grant UMO-2017/26/E/ST6/00622, and ERC Starting Grant 
TOTAL (Allocation: 400k CPUh, 100k GPUh). 

This research was also partly carried out with the support of the Interdisciplinary Centre 
for Mathematical and Computational Modelling University of Warsaw (ICM UW) under 
computational allocation no g91-1438 (Allocation@Topola: 300k CPUh). 

The author would like to thank Marek Cygan & Kamil Wilczek (Entropy team), Michal 
Hermanowicz (ICM), Lukasz Kitowski, Maciej Czuchry, Maciej Szpindler & Maciej Pawlik 
(PLGrid & LUMI). 

This project employs a wide range of both general-purpose and domain-specific tools. 
Some notable examples include PHP, Python, MySQL, Apache2, Bootstrap, EBI Icon Fonts, 
as well as various databases and programs like UniProt, AlphaFold, ESMatlas, PDB, NCBI nr, 
BFD, DSSP, STRIDE, SSE-PSSM, Bio Embeddings, ProtTrans. 

Kudos for all contributors, maintainers, and developers. 

==== Other ====
You will report evidence of pSSdb database bugs to the Author