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	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 Database has published an article describing Worldwide Protein Data Bank biocuration supporting open access to high-quality 3D structural biology data.
	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 Snapshots have been archived annually since January 2005 to provide readily identifiable data sets for research on the PDB archive.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.
	28 Nov 2017 PDBe 2018 Calendar Many proteins are like tiny machines, having a specialised job in the organism, such as identifying and neutralising disease-causing bacteria and viruses.
	17 Nov 2017 PDBe Poster Prize Winner at EMBL Kendrew Conference Congratulations to Marie Mueller who was today awarded the PDBe sponsored 1st prize for her poster at a major structural biology conference in Heidelberg, Germany.
	12 Oct 2017 A clearer 3D view of sugars Carbohydrates, even when formed from very few sugar units, can often be hard to interpret in three dimensions when all their atoms are shown. This week, we have updated the 3D structure viewer on our web pages to add a simpler representation of common pyranose sugars.
	04 Oct 2017 Implementation of PDB Entry Versioning and Better Revision History to Improve PDB Archive Management
	31 Aug 2017 wwPDB Poster Prize Awarded at IUCr 2017 Congratulations to Ms Deekshi Angira, who recently received the wwPDB Poster Prize for "Gamma secretase activating protein as profound target for Alzheimer’s disease" (Deekshi Angira, Vijay Thiruvenkatam, Indian Institute Of Technology Gandhinagar). The Prize was awarded at the 24th Congress & General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (Hyderabad, India). The wwPDB-sponsored award highlights the “best poster by a graduate or undergraduate student in structural biology and related categories.”