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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). |
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PDB Reaches a New Milestone
With this week's update, the PDB archive contains a record 250,441 entries. |
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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. |
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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: |