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wwPDB Events at IUCr 2026
Meet wwPDB members from around the globe at the 26th General Assembly and Congress of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) in Calgary, Canada from August 11-18, 2026. |
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Reuse Metadata from Previous PDB Depositions
Many structural biologists deposit multiple related entries: mutants, ligand-bound forms, re-refinements, or follow-up EM maps from the same project. |
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Big PDB Changes Are One Year Away: Extended PDB IDs, the PDB Beta Archive, and PDBx/mmCIF
Starting July 21, 2027The PDB Beta Archive will replace the current PDB main archive. |
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Improved OneDep Support for 3D ED/MicroED
With the recent advancement of 3D Microcrystal Electron Diffraction (3D ED/MicroED), the number of Electron Crystallography structures deposited in the Protein Data Bank (PDB) has increased and expect to continue growing rapidly. |
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New Syntax for PDB DOIs for Entries Released After July 21, 2027
On July 21, 2027, the wwPDB will fully transition to extended 12-character PDB IDs, the PDBx/mmCIF format, and the re-organized PDB archive. |
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PDB Beta Archive Will Replace Current Archive on July 21, 2027
Starting July 21, 2027: |
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Updated Validation Reports for Released PDB and EMDB Entries
All validation reports for released PDB and EMDB entries have been updated and are now available with recalculated percentiles. |
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Poster Prize Awarded at ASBMB
The wwPDB Foundation made an award for an outstanding student presentation at the 2026 meeting of the American Society for Biochemistry and Molecular Biology (ASBMB; March 7–10, 2026; National Harbor, MD). |
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Release of the PDBe mmCIF Validator: VSCode extension and Python script for PDBx/mmCIF validation
We are pleased to announce the release of the PDBe mmCIF Validator, a tool for validating mmCIF files against the official PDBx/mmCIF dictionary. |
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Register for PDB Workshops at IUCr2026
wwPDB will be part of the Twenty-Seventh Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr2026) that will be held August 11-18, 2026 in Calgary, Alberta (Canada). |
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Call for Targets: CASP17 (2026)
Advancing the Frontiers of Structural BiologyThe Critical Assessment of Structure Prediction (CASP) experiments, held biennially, have recently witnessed a revolution in modeling accuracy driven by deep learning. |
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Poster Prize Awarded at The Biophysical Society Meeting
The wwPDB Foundation made an award for an outstanding student presentation at the 2026 meeting of The Biophysical Society (February 21-25, 2026; San Francisco, CA). |
