16-March-2012

wwPDB Milestones: 80,000 Entries Released, PDB40 Meeting Report Published

The Archive Grows
With the March 13, 2012 update, 80,041 PDB entries became available in the archive. The PDB hit the 70,000 mark in December 2010.

In 2011, 8865 entries were deposited and annotated, while 8107 were released.

wwPDB deposition and download statistics are updated regularly.

Meeting Report
A review of the PDB40 meeting has been published:

The Protein Data Bank at 40: Reflecting on the Past to Prepare for the Future Helen M. Berman, Gerard J. Kleywegt, Haruki Nakamura, John L. Markley Structure (2012) 20: 391 - 396

Selected presentations and related details from the meeting are also available from http://www.wwpdb.org/PDB40.html.

6-March-2012

EM Data Bank joins the PDB archive

The EM Data Bank (EMDB), the primary archive for experimentally-determined maps obtained using three-dimensional electron microscopy methods, has joined the PDB archive (ftp://ftp.wwpdb.org), as announced previously. MORE

8-February-2012

A vision for validation of 3DEM maps and map-derived models

We are pleased to announce the publication of the outcome of the first Electron Microscopy Validation Task Force (EM VTF) meeting in the journal Structure: Henderson et al., Structure (2012). MORE