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Biocurator Milestone: >10,000 Depositions Processed
Congratulations to biocurator Dr. Deborah Harrus on processing over 10,000 PDB depositions. She is the first biocurator at PDBe to reach this milestone and the eighth within the wwPDB. |
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Poster Prizes Awarded at The Protein Society
The wwPDB Foundation made awards for outstanding student presentation at the 2025 meeting of the The Protein Society (June 26 - 29; San Francisco, CA). |
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Coming soon: wwPDB Data Processing Distribution Changes
Starting early January 2026, PDBj will biocurate data depositions coming from Oceania in addition to depositions from other regions in Asia except China. |
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Poster Prizes Awarded at LACA
The wwPDB Foundation made awards for outstanding student presentation at the 2025 meeting of the Brazilian Crystallographic Association and the Latin American Crystallographic Association (Oct 14-17; Fortaleza, Brazil). |
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PDBe adopts the new DSSP for protein secondary structure annotation
Proteins mostly fold into distinct structural patterns, like helices, sheets, and loops: identifying these patterns is important for understanding, illustrating, and communicating how proteins fold and work. |
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Coming Soon: Remediation of Metalloprotein-containing PDB Entries and CCDs
Metalloproteins represent ~30% of the PDB archive. Ensuring FAIR data practices for metalloproteins is highly impactful. |
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AlphaFold Database release notes
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Breaking changes to the AFDB predictions API
The AlphaFold Database has significant upcoming changes to the “prediction” API endpoint. The primary |
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Introducing the first 3DEM Model-Map percentile slider to the wwPDB validation report
The wwPDB is continuing to improve and expand our validation offerings with a new addition to the wwPDB PDF validation reports. |
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Paper Published: 3DEM Structure-Map Validation Recommendations
A new publication describes two percentile-based metrics: Q_relative_all and Q_relative_resolution. The publication presents a statistical analysis of Q-score and these new percentile based validation metrics. |
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Transitioning to PDBx/mmCIF and Extended PDB IDs
wwPDB strongly encourages all users to adopt the extended PDB ID format and transition to PDBx/mmCIF file format as soon as possible. |
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Unifying PDBe API endpoints - Breaking changes to PDBe API
As part of our commitment to continuous improvement, we are excited to announce a significant upgrade to our REST API service. |