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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

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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.

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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.

Emily G. Schaffter

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.

Metal-protein interaction annotation and metal coordination annotation and assessment

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.

AlphaFold version 6 release notes

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