News

Assessing PDB structure quality

The wwPDB has released Validation Reports for all X-ray crystal structures available in the PDB archive.

X-ray validation reports added to PDB archive

X-ray validation reports added to PDB archive

Validation reports for all X-ray crystal structures released in the PDB archive are now publicly available. The reports are accessible from the following FTP sites:

Job vacancy: structural analyst/programmer

Job vacancy: structural analyst/programmer

We are seeking to recruit a structural analyst/programmer to join the Protein Data Bank in Europe team (PDBe) at the European Bioinformatics Institute located on the Wellcome Trust Genome Campus near Cambridge in the UK.

Archiving structures derived from SAS data

Archiving structures derived from SAS data

Small-angle scattering (SAS) methods are increasingly used to study the 3D structure of biomacromolecules, either by themselves or in conjunction with other techniques (e.g., crystallography, NMR, 3DEM).

Mapping structural data to biological pathways

Mapping structural data to biological pathways

Reactome and the Protein Data Bank in Europe are pleased to announce that protein structure information is now readily accessible from with

New Nobel-inspired Quips article: Acetylcholinesterase, a gorge-ous enzyme

New Nobel-inspired Quips article: Acetylcholinesterase, a gorge-ous enzyme

Today, the Nobel Laureates gather in Stockholm to receive their Nobel Prize Medals. To mark this occasion we have released a new Quips article.

New wwPDB service allows crystallographers to validate their own structures

New wwPDB service allows crystallographers to validate their own structures

The Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) partners are pleased to announce that X-ray structure validation reports can now be generated on demand by macromolecular crystallographers.

Registration open - EMBO Practical Course on Computational Structural Biology

Registration open - EMBO Practical Course on Computational Structural Biology

Now in its 5th consecutive year, this unique and highly popular practical course covers computational aspects of protein structure determination, validation and analysis, including background in X-ray crystallography, Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy, Electron Microscopy and Small-a

How Nobel Prize-winning computational methods have contributed to structural biology

How Nobel Prize-winning computational methods have contributed to structural biology

The 2013 Nobel Prize in Chemistry has been awarded jointly to Martin Karplus, Michael Levitt and Arieh Warshel "for the development of multiscale models for complex chemical systems".