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[[Image:OCA.gif |thumb|200px|right|'''OCA, a browser/database for Protein Structure and Function''']]

The [[User:OCA|OCA]] user account is used in an automatic fashion by a "bot" (an automated script) to populate and update Proteopedia pages named after PDB entries (such as [[1h88]]) and seed those pages in part with content aggregated by the OCA Database and Browser. This account and the bot that uses it is maintained by [[User:Jaime Prilusky|Jaime Prilusky]].

The [http://oca.weizmann.ac.il OCA Database and Browser] was developed in 1996 by [[User:J Prilusky|Jaime Prilusky]] of the 
Bioinformatics Unit, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel.

Oca is the spanish word for [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goose goose], 
but many suspect that its selection was inspired by 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_C._Clarke Arthur C. Clarke]'s science-fiction novel
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2001:_A_Space_Odyssey 2001: A Space Odyssey].