News

Download Snapshots of the PDB Core Archive via HTTPS, SYNC, RSYNC, or FTP

Download Snapshots of the PDB Core Archive via HTTPS, SYNC, RSYNC, or FTP

Snapshots of the PDB Core archive (https://files.rcsb.org) can be downloaded via HTTPS, SYNC, RSYNC, or FTP. At RCSB PDB, AWS SYNC is supported instead of RSYNC.

Hsiang-Ling Huang

Poster Prize Awarded at The Biophysical Society Meeting

The wwPDB Foundation made an award for an outstanding student presentation at the 2025 Biophysical Society Meeting (February 15-19, Los Angeles, CA).

New version of PDB-IHM validation reports now include assessments of crosslinking mass spectrometry-based structure models

New version of PDB-IHM validation reports now include assessments of crosslinking mass spectrometry-based structure models

We are pleased to announce the release of updated validation reports (version 2) for structures determined using integrative and hybrid methods (IHM) archived in the PDB-IHM branch of the PDB archive.

Benefits of the PDBx/mmCIF ecosystem

Take the PDBx/mmCIF User Guide Survey and Win!

Please take this brief survey about the PDBx/mmCIF User Guide to help us gain insights into the Guide’s usage and identify areas for fut

Integrative structures are available at wwPDB.org and the PDB archive

PDB-Dev now PDB-IHM

Structures of many large macromolecular assemblies are now being determined using integrative approaches, wherein information derived from multiple experimental and computational methods is combined to compute their three-dimensional structures.

New archive snapshots are available

Time-stamped Copies of PDB and EMDB Archives

A snapshot of the PDB Core archive (https://files.wwpdb.org/, https://s3.rcsb.org) as of January 1, 2025 has been added to https://s3snapshots.rcsb.org/, snapshots.rcsb.

Chemical Component Dictionary files with ideal geometries in SDF/MOL format are now available from the PDB archive

Access SDF/MOL formatted CCD files from the PDB archive

PDB Chemical Component Dictionary (CCD) files with ideal geometries are now provided in SDF/MOL format at the PDB archive.

New Ligand Pages: Revamped PDBeChem Service (Release)

PDBe team Introduces Novel Ligand Pages: A revamped PDBeChem service

The Protein Data Bank in Europe team is excited to announce the release of its enhanced PDBe-KB Ligand Pages

wwPDB News logo

wwPDB News: Deprecation of FTP File Download Protocol on November 1, 2024

The FTP protocol for file downloads has been losing popularity over the years in favor of HTTP/S. There are many advantages of HTTP/S including speed, statelessness, security (HTTPS), and better support.

Illustration: A protein can consist of everything from tens of amino acids to several thousand (PDF)

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024

The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has announced that they will award David Baker, Demis Hassabis, and John Jumper the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 2024 for computational protein design and protein structure predicti

Preprint publications will trigger wwPDB data archive release

wwPDB Data Release Policy on Public Preprint Archives

The wwPDB releases entries under the following circumstances:

Examples PCM and PTM types

Annotation of protein modifications in the PDB

Protein chemical modifications (PCMs) and post translational modifications (PTMs) annotation is now included in CCD files, and updated atomic coordinate files are being rolled out.