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PDBe mmCIF Validator

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).

CASP17

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.

Haley R. Johnson

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).

The PDB contains more than 250,000 entries

PDB Reaches a New Milestone

With this week's update, the PDB archive contains a record 250,441 entries.

New PDB beta archive available for testing in support of extended PDB IDs

New PDB Beta Archive Available for Testing

By 2028 4-character PDB IDs (e.g. 1abc) will be fully allocated. After that, all new entries will be assigned only extended PDB IDs.

EMDB released entry growth by year

EMDB Surpasses 10,000 Entries in a Year

The wwPDB has reached a historic milestone, releasing 10,000 EMDB entries in a single year.

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wwPDB Shared Responsibilities on Data Processing

Depositions are automatically distributed to wwPDB deposition centers geographically.Data processing responsibilities are shared among wwPDB partner sites:

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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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Time-stamped Copies of PDB and EMDB Archives

A snapshot of the PDB Core archive (https://files.wwpdb.org, https://s3.rcsb.org) as of January 01, 2026 has been added to https://s3snapshot

Number of PDB depositions per year

Milestone: >20,000 Structures Deposited to the PDB in 2025

wwPDB is proud to announce that it surpassed the milestone of 20,000 new structure depositions this year.

Dr. Deborah Harrus

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.