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PDB entries deposited after July 20, 2027 will only be assigned extended PDB IDs and will follow a new DOI syntax.

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.

PDB Beta Archive Directory Structure

PDB Beta Archive Will Replace Current Archive on July 21, 2027

Starting July 21, 2027:

Q-score and new percentiles

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.

Christine Zardecki (wwPDB Foundation) and Sara Scanlan (James Madison University)

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).

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.

OneDep workshop

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.

Data processing distribution map

wwPDB Shared Responsibilities on Data Processing

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