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wwPDB news: Updated Annotation and Standardization of Peptide Residues

In October 2023, wwPDB will roll out updated CCD data files with additional annotation and standardized atom naming of peptide residues.

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Illuminating protein conformational landscapes in the PDB archive

The PDBe team is excited to announce the release of a groundbreaking scientific data pipeline to identify protein conformational states in the Protein Data Bank (PDB).

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wwPDB News - 20 Years of the wwPDB and PDBc associate member

Celebrating 20 years of the wwPDB consortium and announcing the launch of Protein Data Bank China (PDBc) as an Associate Member of the Partnership.

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wwPDB News - NMR restraint remediation conforms to standard NMR-STAR and NEF format

Standardized NMR data files and updated validation reports are now available for existing NMR entries

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wwPDB news: NMR restraint remediation conforms to standard NMR-STAR and NEF format

NMR data files are standardized in NEF and NMR-STAR format [Ulrich, 2019] for the PDB entries which have NMR data in many different software specific formats

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Improved macromolecular interactions data with PISA-lite

An updated version of PISA generates new and enhanced interactions data for all annotated assemblies in the PDB archive, available from the PDBe API and FTP.

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A new process for aggregating and naming assemblies in the PDB

PDBe has created a new process to aggregate and name assemblies in the PDB based on unique assembly composition.

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wwPDB news: Prepare depositions using new pdb_extract features

pdb_extract merges coordinate data, author-provided metadata, and data processing information from output files produced by structure determination programs into a complete PDBx/mmCIF file that can used for easy deposition with OneDep.

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wwPDB News: Removal of ls-lR index file from the PDB archive

Users are encouraged to transition to new files before July 12th 2023

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Access Depositions Using ORCiD

Contact authors can log into OneDep using ORCiD authentication and access associated depositions

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Displaying detailed RNA secondary structure at PDBe entry pages

RNA secondary structure visualisation on PDBe pages now displays base pairing information using Leontis-Westhof nomenclature

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Updated pipeline for small molecule data processing at PDBe

The PDBe process for generating data on small molecule ligands and their interactions in the PDB archive has been updated, allowing multi-component ‘bound ligands� to be identified and defined throughout the PDB archive.