Dear Haskellers, I would like to present a benchmark of Protein Databank parsers that indicates that one written in Haskell seems to outpace all others when using 4 or more of parallel cores: hPDB - Haskell library for processing atomic biomolecular structures in Protein Data Bank format -- Michal Jan Gajda BMC Research Notes.2013, 6:483. DOI: 10.1186/1756-0500-6-483 URL: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1756-0500/6/483 Please let me know if you know of any other parsers that could be added to this benchmark. Along with hTalos, and parseSTAR parser libraries for nuclear magnetic resonance data it adds to growing collection of bioinformatic libraries written in Haskell. Together with CloudHaskell and modern 48-core machines, they allow to process multigigabyte bioinformatic databases in a matter of few minutes (slightly over 8 minutes in case of over 10GB of PDB.) If interested, please see: http://biohaskell.org/. -- Best regards Michał J. Gajda