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2019 calendar: Science and Society

2019 calendar: Science and Society

Our new PDBe calendar for 2019, entitled 'Science and Society,' explores the connection between these two seemingly disconnected activities through the creation of artworks by school students.

A successful Hackathon with BioExcel partners

A successful Hackathon with BioExcel partners

Last month we hosted a hackathon event where BioExcel developers joined members of the PDBe team to tackle problems related to programmatic access of PDB data.

New publication from the global wwPDB consortium

New publication from the global wwPDB consortium

An important new publication describing the activities and development of the Protein Data Bank (PDB), and authored by the whole wwPDB consortium, has been recently released in the 2019 Database issue of Nuclei

Bringing clarity to chemistry at PDBe

Bringing clarity to chemistry at PDBe

The PDB is an archive of macromolecular structures, but the small molecules bound in these structures are the focus of much interest. We have recently made some changes to the way we display images of small molecules at PDBe, which brings a lot more clarity to their chemistry.

ECM31 Poster Prize Awarded

ECM31 Poster Prize Awarded

Congratulations to Sasa Petrovic (left) from Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and Marie Haufroid from Université de Namur who were awarded the PDBe sponsored poster prize at the European Crystallographic Meeting

Raw experimental data for 3D structures highlighted at PDBe

Raw experimental data for 3D structures highlighted at PDBe

PDBe, IRRMC, SBGrid, EMPIAR and BMRB are pleased to announce a web component available on the PDBe web pages that enables users to easily access unprocessed experimental data associated with PDB structures.

PDBe-KB: Help us enrich protein data with functional annotations

PDBe-KB: Help us enrich protein data with functional annotations

PDBe is looking for feedback on a new resource, PDBe-KB (Protein Data Bank in Europe - Knowledge Base), a community-driven resource managed by the PDBe team, collating functional annotations and predictions for structure data in the PDB archive.

Celebrating Art Inspired by the PDB

Celebrating Art Inspired by the PDB

Over the past couple of years, PDBe has worked with local arts societies and schools, using protein structures to inspire artworks. Today, that work is celebrated and shared in a public exhibition of this work at the Michaelhouse Cafe in Cambridge.

Poster prize awarded at UKSR50 conference

Poster prize awarded at UKSR50 conference

Congratulations to Chai Gopalasingam who won the PDBe poster prize at the UKSR50 conference in Liverpool, UK - celebrating 50 years of Synchrotron Radiation in the UK.

wwPDB news: ORCIDs To Become Mandatory for OneDep Contact Authors

wwPDB news: ORCIDs To Become Mandatory for OneDep Contact Authors

The wwPDB is making an important change to the data we collect from users at deposition in the OneDep system. Please see the following announcement from the wwPDB:

Spotting Cofactors in the PDB

Spotting Cofactors in the PDB

Cofactors are an essential class of non-protein organic molecules. Among the many small molecules in the PDB archive, they’re now easier to identify.

PDBe poster prize awarded at ENBIK

PDBe poster prize awarded at ENBIK

Congratulations to Jaroslav Budi who won the PDBe poster prize at the recent ENBIK conference in the Czech R