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Time-stamped Copies of the PDB Archive Available

Time-stamped Copies of the PDB Archive Available

A snapshot of the PDB archive (ftp://ftp.wwpdb.org) as of January 1, 2018 has been added to ftp://snapshots.wwpdb.org and ftp://snapshots.pdb

Overview of PDB Validation Reports published in Structure

Overview of PDB Validation Reports published in Structure

An article focused on the structure validation reports produced by wwPDB is now available: Validation of Structures in the Protein Data Bank (2017) Structure doi: 10.1016/j.str.2017.10.009.

Turbocharging our molecular viewer

Turbocharging our molecular viewer

Some structures in the PDB are huge. Complexes with millions of atoms require tens of megabytes to store and experimental map data, especially for electron microscopy, can be several gigabytes.

PDBe 2018 Calendar

PDBe 2018 Calendar

PDBe Poster Prize Winner at EMBL Kendrew Conference

PDBe Poster Prize Winner at EMBL Kendrew Conference

Congratulations to Marie Mueller who was today awarded the PDBe sponsored 1st prize for her poster at a major structural biology conference in Heidelberg, Germany.

A clearer 3D view of sugars

A clearer 3D view of sugars

Implementation of PDB Entry Versioning and Better Revision History to Improve PDB Archive Management

Implementation of PDB Entry Versioning and Better Revision History to Improve PDB Archive Management

A new FTP repository, ftp://ftp-versioned.wwpdb.org/ now hosts versioned structural model files in PDBx/mmCIF and PDBML formats.

wwPDB Poster Prize Awarded at IUCr 2017

wwPDB Poster Prize Awarded at IUCr 2017

Congratulations to Ms Deekshi Angira, who recently received the wwPDB Poster Prize for "Gamma secretase activating protein as profound target for Alzheimer’s disease" (Deekshi Angira, Vijay Thiruvenkatam, Indian Institute Of Technology Gandhinagar).

Enriched Model Files Conforming to OneDep Data Standards Now Available in the PDB FTP Archive

Enriched Model Files Conforming to OneDep Data Standards Now Available in the PDB FTP Archive

The model files in the PDB FTP archive have been updated to V5.0 of the PDBx/mmCIF dictionary. 

ISBC Poster Prize awarded

ISBC Poster Prize awarded

Congratulations to Crissy L. Tarver from the University of Alabama who won the PDBe sponsored poster prize at the recent International School on Biological Crystallization held in Granada, Spain.

2017 ÀÖÌìÌÃÓÎÏ·ÍøÕ¾ course in Structural Bioinformatics

2017 ÀÖÌìÌÃÓÎÏ·ÍøÕ¾ course in Structural Bioinformatics

Applications are invited for a course on Structural Bioinformatics that is being organised by ÀÖÌìÌÃÓÎÏ·ÍøÕ¾ and that will be held from 23-27 October 2017. This course explores bioinformatics data resources and tools for the interpretation and exploitation of bio-macromolecular structures.

SIFT-ing through sequence space in the PDB

SIFT-ing through sequence space in the PDB