diff --git a/Bio/PDB/Structure/Elements.hs b/Bio/PDB/Structure/Elements.hs
--- a/Bio/PDB/Structure/Elements.hs
+++ b/Bio/PDB/Structure/Elements.hs
@@ -6,7 +6,9 @@
                                   -- Guessing element name from atom name (for standard residues only.)
                                   guessElement,
                                   -- properties of elements
-                                  atomicNumber, atomicMass, covalentRadius, vanDerWaalsRadius) where
+                                  atomicNumber, atomicMass,
+                                  covalentRadius,    maxCovalentRadius,
+                                  vanDerWaalsRadius, maxVanDerWaalsRadius) where
 
 import Prelude hiding (error, String)
 import Data.ByteString.Char8 as BS
@@ -251,6 +253,7 @@
 covalentRadius    "ZR" = 1.75
 covalentRadius    x    = defaulting ["Unknown covalent radius for element:", BS.pack $ show x] 0.0
 
+maxCovalentRadius = covalentRadius "FR"
 
 {-# INLINE atomicMass        #-}
 -- | Atomic mass of a given element in g/mol
@@ -481,6 +484,8 @@
 vanDerWaalsRadius "ZN" = 1.39
 vanDerWaalsRadius "ZR" = 2.00
 vanDerWaalsRadius e    = defaulting ["Do not know van der Waals radius of", BS.pack $ show e] 0.0
+
+maxVanDerWaalsRadius = vanDerWaalsRadius "K"
 
 {-# INLINE assignElement #-}
 -- | Given a PDB 'Atom' extract or guess its 'Element' name.
diff --git a/Bio/PDB/Structure/Neighbours.hs b/Bio/PDB/Structure/Neighbours.hs
new file mode 100644
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Bio/PDB/Structure/Neighbours.hs
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+{-# LANGUAGE NoMonomorphismRestriction, FlexibleContexts #-}
+-- | Searching for neighbouring atoms in a 3D space using `Octree`.
+module Bio.PDB.Structure.Neighbours(makeOctree, findInRadius, findNearest)
+where
+
+import qualified Data.Octree                as Oct
+import           Bio.PDB.Structure
+import           Bio.PDB.Iterable
+import           Data.Vector.V3
+
+-- | Octree of `Atom`s.
+type AtomOctree = Oct.Octree Atom
+
+-- | Preparing atom to be inserted into `Octree`.
+extract      :: Atom -> (Oct.Vector3, Atom)
+extract (at@(Atom { coord    = cvec,
+                    atSerial = ser ,
+                    element  = elt })) = (cvec, at)
+
+-- | Make an Octree of `Atom`s
+makeOctree   :: Iterable a Atom => a -> AtomOctree
+makeOctree   = Oct.fromList . Prelude.map extract . itfoldr (:) []
+
+-- | Find all `Atom`s within a given radius from a point.
+findInRadius :: AtomOctree -> Double -> Vector3 ->      [(Vector3, Atom)]
+findInRadius = Oct.withinRange
+
+-- | Find an `Atom`s closest to a point.
+findNearest  :: AtomOctree ->           Vector3 -> Maybe (Vector3, Atom)
+findNearest  = Oct.nearest
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
 ====
 Haskell PDB file format parser.
 
-[![Build Status](https://api.travis-ci.org/mgajda/hPDB.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/mgajda/hPDB)
+[![Build Status](https://api.travis-ci.org/BioHaskell/hPDB.png?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/BioHaskell/hPDB)
 
 Protein Data Bank file format is a most popular format for holding biomolecule data.
 
diff --git a/hPDB.cabal b/hPDB.cabal
--- a/hPDB.cabal
+++ b/hPDB.cabal
@@ -1,14 +1,26 @@
 name:                hPDB
-version:             1.0
+version:             1.1
 synopsis:            Protein Databank file format library
-homepage:            https://github.com/mgajda/hpdb
+homepage:            https://github.com/BioHaskell/hPDB
 stability:           stable
 package-url:         http://hackage.haskell.org/package/hPDB
-description:         Protein Data Bank file format is a most popular format for holding biomolecule data.
+description:         Protein Data Bank file format is a most popular format for holding biological macromolecular data.
                      .
-                     This is a very fast parser: below 7s for the largest entry in PDB - 1HTQ which is over 70MB - as compared with 11s of RASMOL 2.7.5, or 2m15s of BioPython with Python 2.6 interpreter.
+                     This is a very fast sequential parser:
                      .
-                     It is aimed to not only deliver event-based interface, but also a high-level data structure for manipulating data in spirit of BioPython's PDB parser. 
+                       * below 7s for the largest entry in PDB - 1HTQ which is over 70MB - as compared with 
+                     .
+                       * 11s of RASMOL 2.7.5,
+                     .
+                       * or 2m15s of BioPython with Python 2.6 interpreter.
+                     .
+                     In its parallel incarnation it is most probably the fastest parser for PDB format.
+                     .
+                     It is aimed to not only deliver event-based interface, but also a high-level data
+                     structure for manipulating data in spirit of BioPython's PDB parser. 
+                     .
+                     <http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1756-0500-6-483 hPDB - Haskell library for processing atomic biomolecular structures in Protein Data Bank format - Michal Jan Gajda. BMC Research Notes 2013, 6:483.>
+
 category:            Bioinformatics 
 license:             BSD3
 license-file:        LICENSE
@@ -25,7 +37,7 @@
 
 source-repository head
   type:     git
-  location: https://github.com/mgajda/hPDB
+  location: https://github.com/BioHaskell/hPDB
 
 flag have-mmap
   description: Use mmap to read input faster.
@@ -65,7 +77,7 @@
 
 Library
   ghc-options:      -fspec-constr-count=4 -O3 
-  build-depends:    base>=4.0, base <4.8, ghc-prim, directory, mtl, template-haskell, vector, AC-Vector, containers, deepseq, QuickCheck >= 2.5.0.0, text>=0.11.1.13, iterable >= 2.0, parallel >= 3.0.0.0, bytestring, zlib
+  build-depends:    base>=4.0, base <4.8, ghc-prim, directory, mtl, template-haskell, vector, AC-Vector, containers, deepseq, QuickCheck >= 2.5.0.0, text>=0.11.1.13, iterable >= 2.0, parallel >= 3.0.0.0, bytestring, zlib, Octree>= 0.5
   if flag(have-sse2)
     ghc-options: -msse2 
   if flag(have-mmap)
@@ -78,6 +90,6 @@
     build-depends: text-format >= 0.3.1.0
   other-extensions:       ScopedTypeVariables OverloadedStrings BangPatterns NoMonomorphismRestriction EmptyDataDecls MagicHash CPP PatternGuards NamedFieldPuns DisambiguateRecordFields TemplateHaskell MultiParamTypeClasses FlexibleInstances FlexibleContexts
   other-modules:    Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseATOM, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseCAVEAT, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseCISPEP, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseCONECT, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseCRYST1, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseDBREF, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseFORMUL, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseHEADER, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseHELIX, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseHET, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseHETNAM, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseHYDBND, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseIntRecord, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseJRNL, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseLINK, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseListRecord, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseMASTER, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseMatrixRecord, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseMODRES, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseObsoleting, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseREMARK, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseREVDAT, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseSEQADV, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseSEQRES, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseSHEET, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseSITE, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseSLTBRG, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseSpecListRecord, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseSPLIT, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseSSBOND, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseTER, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseTITLE, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ParseTVECT, Bio.PDB.EventParser.PDBParsingAbstractions, Bio.PDB.EventParser.FastParse, Bio.PDB.Util.MissingInstances, Bio.PDB.Common, Bio.PDB.Iterable.Utils, Bio.PDB.Iterable.Instances, Bio.PDB.StructureBuilder.Internals, Bio.PDB.StructureBuilder.Parallel
-  exposed-modules:  Bio.PDB.EventParser.PDBEvents, Bio.PDB.EventParser.PDBEventParser, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ExperimentalMethods, Bio.PDB.EventParser.HelixTypes, Bio.PDB.EventParser.StrandSense, Bio.PDB.Structure, Bio.PDB.StructureBuilder, Bio.PDB.Iterable, Bio.PDB.IO, Bio.PDB.Fasta, Bio.PDB, Bio.PDB.Structure.Vector, Bio.PDB.Structure.Elements, Bio.PDB.Structure.List, Bio.PDB.StructurePrinter, Bio.PDB.EventParser.PDBEventPrinter, Bio.PDB.IO.OpenAnyFile
+  exposed-modules:  Bio.PDB.EventParser.PDBEvents, Bio.PDB.EventParser.PDBEventParser, Bio.PDB.EventParser.ExperimentalMethods, Bio.PDB.EventParser.HelixTypes, Bio.PDB.EventParser.StrandSense, Bio.PDB.Structure, Bio.PDB.StructureBuilder, Bio.PDB.Iterable, Bio.PDB.IO, Bio.PDB.Fasta, Bio.PDB, Bio.PDB.Structure.Vector, Bio.PDB.Structure.Elements, Bio.PDB.Structure.List, Bio.PDB.StructurePrinter, Bio.PDB.EventParser.PDBEventPrinter, Bio.PDB.IO.OpenAnyFile, Bio.PDB.Structure.Neighbours
   exposed:          True
 
