PISCES: A Protein Sequence Culling Server

PISCES has two ways of producing subsets of sequences from larger sets:

Important features of this service:


Access the server to create your own lists
Download precompiled CulledPDB lists (tar.gz file, ~800 Mbytes)
Download precompiled CulledPDB lists (directory)


Please cite the following in any work that uses lists provided by PISCES
G. Wang and R. L. Dunbrack, Jr. PISCES: a protein sequence culling server. Bioinformatics, 19:1589-1591, 2003.

Contact us:

Qifang Xu: Qifang.Xu@fccc.edu
Roland Dunbrack: Roland.Dunbrack@fccc.edu

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Last modified: March 2, 2022