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New Symmetry Annotation Feature for Macromolecular Assemblies

In an effort to improve the understanding of the structure and function of macromolecular assemblies, a new feature has been introduced to annotate and display symmetry in these structures.

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wwPDB News - Deprecation of FTP File Download Protocol in the PDB Archive

wwPDB plans to deprecate FTP download protocol on November 1st 2024

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wwPDB News - Backbone Annotation and Standardization of Peptide Residues is Now Live

All CCD data files of peptide residues have been updated with backbone annotation and standardized atom naming.

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Help us design macromolecular complex pages at PDBe-KB

We are working on aggregating and displaying all the data available for macromolecular complexes in the PDB and would like to learn what data regarding complexes you find helpful in your research.

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wwPDB News - Poster Prizes Awarded at IUCr

The wwPDB Foundation made awards to Akila Pilapitiya (La Trobe University) and Liliana Guerrero (The City University of New York) for their work.

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wwPDB News - Remediation of crystal structures deposited in non-standard coordinate frames

Coordinates for 268 PDB structures have been transformed to standard coordinate frames

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Distribution of Electron Microscopy metadata in PDBx/mmCIF file format

At the beginning of October 2023, the Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB) will start distributing electron microscopy (EM) metadata for its entries in PDBx/mmCIF file format alongside the already available XML formatted files.

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wwPDB News: PDB entries with new ligands only in PDBx/mmCIF format

At current growth rates, we anticipate running out of three-character Chemical Component IDs by the end of 2023. After this point, the wwPDB will issue five-character alphanumeric accession codes for CCD IDs in the OneDep system.

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PDB Art Virtual Exhibition 2023 - Opening Event

Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe) are hosting an online art exhibition to celebrate artwork created through the PDB Art project in 2023. This virtual event, on Tuesday 19th September 2023 at 5:00pm BST, will mark the official opening of the 2023 virtual exhibition.

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Introducing ‘Covalently Linked Components� and enriched ligand information at PDBe

We have introduced Covalently Linked Components (CLCs), a new class of reference small molecules simplifying the identification of multi-component ligands in PDB entries, plus we have enhanced the content of wwPDB CCD and PRD files with valuable meta-data.

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PDBImages: A new, open-source macromolecular structure imaging pipeline

The PDBe team, in collaboration with David Sehnal (NCBR, Masaryk University, Czech Republic), has developed a new pipeline for generating images of macromolecular structures.

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3D-Beacons update: Search for structural models by protein sequence

The 3D-Beacons resource has undergone some major improvements, including updates to the API and a new sequence search feature.