Taking biological structure communications into the third dimension

In this issue of Acta Crystallographica F, Structural Biology Communications, Firth et al. (2019) present a text-mining tool for automatic protein-residue annotation in published papers. The tool, called pyresid, searches the text of an article for references to amino acids, then identifies the relevant protein and links that amino acid reference in the text to the residue in the associated PDB or mmcif file(s). In doing so, it enables the reader, at the touch of a button, to jump to the relevant part of the 3D structure