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	13 Apr 2018 David Blow Poster Prize awarded at BCA Congratulations to Dr. Liz Blackburn who was awarded the David Blow poster prize at the recent British Crystallographic Association Spring Meeting.
	29 Mar 2018 PDBe Explores Art PDBe recently contributed to an art exhibition in Cambridgeshire celebrating young people's artwork, as part of our ongoing work with school art departments.
	28 Mar 2018 Access Updated Validation Reports for PDB Structures Validation reports for all PDB structures have been updated to include new percentile statistics reflecting the state of the archive on December 31st 2017 and updated versions of third-party software: CCP4/Refmac (7.0 v44), Phenix (1.13) and Mogul (2018) and CSD archive (as539be). The LLDF statistic previously used to identify ligands that do not fit electron density well has been replaced by a combination of Real-space R-factor (RSR>0.4) and Real-space correlation coefficient (RSCC<0.8).
	27 Mar 2018 Poster Prize awarded at German Crystallographic Society (DGK) Congratulations to Matthias Barone from Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) who won the PDBe sponsored poster prize at the 26th Annual Meeting of the German Crystallographic Society (DGK) earlier this month. Matthias is pictured here by his poster "Structure-optimized ProM scaffolds address Ena/VASP as a possible antimetastatic target" with the prize, a copy of Bernhard Rupp's "Biomolecular Crystallography."
	15 Mar 2018 Tools for teaching in 3D Molecular structure, especially biomolecule structure, is tricky to visualise. New resources, produced by Dr Peter Hoare and students at Newcastle University in conjunction with PDBe, help students see in 3D and contextualise their knowledge at the chemistry–biology interface.
	10 Mar 2018 VIB Applied Bioinformatics Poster Prize awarded Congratulations to Gaspar Pinto from Masaryk University who has won the PDBe sponsored poster prize at the VIB Applied Bioinformatics in Life Sciences Conference held 8-9th March in Leuven Belgium. His poster described the software CaverDock, which analyses protein tunnels. Gaspar (right) is pictured here receiving the prize from Alexander Botzki from VIB Bioinformatics Core
	20 Feb 2018 wwPDB Biocuration Highlighted in New Publication The journal
	10 Jan 2018 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.pdbj.org. Snapshots have been archived annually since January 2005 to provide readily identifiable data sets for research on the PDB archive.
	01 Dec 2017 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.
	30 Nov 2017 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. We have recently updated our online viewer LiteMol to enable rapid viewing of 3D structural data of any size. This means that you can examine structures and the underlying experimental map data online and on the move, even if you aren't on the fastest network.