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co-authored by all organizers and participants in the EMDataResource Ligand Challenge has now been published in Nature Methods. 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Kyle brings 10 years of experience in the cryo-EM field.<br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/kyle_morris_team_leader.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2022" id="y2022"></a>2022 News</h4> <p></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/q_score_announce.html">Improved EM validation with Q-score</a></h4><p>Starting September 23, wwPDB validation of 3DEM structures for which there is both a model and an EM volume will include the Q-score metric<br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/q_score_announce.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/pdbextract_announce.html">EM-specific metadata template to help with OneDep depositions</a></h4><p>A new time-saving EM-specific template for metadata input is now available at the PDB_EXTRACT website. The template eases the burden of depositing multiple related structures to the wwPDB OneDep System.<br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/pdbextract_announce.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/ptp_announce.html">New: RNA Virtual Torsion Plot Service</a></h4> <p>EMDR has a new web service for validation of RNA structures determined using cryo-EM and other experimental methods. RNA adopts complex three-dimensional folding patterns in biology such as ribosomal particles, spliceosomes, RNA viruses, and polymerase complexes.<br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/ptp_announce.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2021" id="y2021"></a>2021 News</h4> <p></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_mandatory_half_maps.html">Deposition of Half-maps for Certain EM Entries to Become Mandatory</a></h4> <p>From February 25, 2022, deposition of half-maps for single-particle, single-particle-based helical, and sub-tomogram averaging reconstructions to the EM Data Bank (EMDB) will become mandatory.<br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_mandatory_half_maps.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_v3_change.html">wwPDB to switch to v3 EMDB data model</a></h4> <p>From February 9, 2022, the wwPDB EMDB Core Archive will exclusively support version 3 of its data model and retire version 1.9.6 header files from the archive.<br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_v3_change.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/2019_challenge_paper.html">2019 Model Metrics Challenge Outcomes Now Published</a></h4> <p><strong>February 4, 2021:</strong> The final version of the paper describing the outcomes of the 2019 Model Metrics Challenge is <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-020-01051-w" target="_blank">now published in Nature Methods</a> with an <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-021-01062-1" target="_blank">accompanying News & Views commentary</a>. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/2019_challenge_paper.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/ligandchallenge2021.html">Announcing the 2021 Ligand Model Challenge</a></h4> <p><strong>February 1, 2021</strong>: Our next model challenge launches today: the <a href="https://challenges.emdataresource.org/?q=2021-model-challenge" target="_blank">2021 EMDataResource Ligand Model Challenge</a>. The task for modeler teams in this round is to <em>optimize</em> reference models against selected target maps containing protein or protein+RNA, ligands, ions and solvent (1.9-2.5 脜 resolution range). <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/ligandchallenge2021.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/2021_EM_val_reports.html">wwPDB EM Validation Reports Now Publicly Available</a></h4> <p>The wwPDB archive has now been updated to include validation reports for every released set of EM model coordinates in the PDB and every released EMDB map entry. Validation reports provide quantitative and visual assessments of structure quality and enable archive-wide comparisons. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/2021_EM_val_reports.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2020" id="y2020"></a>2020 News</h4> <p></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/2020_EMDR_updates_features.html">EMDR What's New 2020</a></h4> <p>In 2020 we made several important enhancements to the EMDR website to better enable our visitors to quickly find and view summary information about their map entries of interest. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/2020_EMDR_updates_features.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/casp14_conf.html">CASP14 Conference</a></h4> <p> Following ground-breaking developments in 2018, CASP (Critical Assessment of protein Structure Prediction) will present another round of exciting progress in the field via virtual conference Nov 30-Dec 4, 2020. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/casp14_conf.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/2020_Nov_validation_symposium.html">Open meeting hosted by UK Cryo-EM Validation Network</a></h4> <p> A 3-day virtual/online meeting "Cryo-EM Validation in the Age of SARS-CoV-2: Methods, Tools and Applications" (Nov 18-20) will present current thinking on cryo-EM map and map/model validation, and consider future research directions. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/2020_Nov_validation_symposium.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/2020_updated_val_reports.html">Updated Validation Reports for Released PDB Structures</a></h4> <p> Sept-2020: Updated validation reports for all X-ray, NMR, and 3DEM structures released in the PDB archive are now available. Of particular importance for cryo-EM, the updated report format includes EM map analysis, and fit of EM model to its map volume. FSC curves are also included to compare reported and estimated resolution, where either half maps or FSC data was uploaded. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/2020_updated_val_reports.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/2019_challenge_preprint.html">2019 Model Metrics Challenge Outcomes Preprint</a></h4> <p>June 15 2020:"Outcomes of the 2019 EMDataResource model challenge: validation of cryo-EM models at near-atomic resolution" is available as a <a href="https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.12.147033v1" target="_blank">preprint at BioRxiv</a> while under consideration for publication. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/2019_challenge_preprint.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/casp14_call.html">Cryo-EM Structures Sought for CASP14</a></h4> <p>The 14th Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (<a href="http://www.predictioncenter.org" target="_blank">CASP</a>) round started on May 18, 2020. Membrane proteins and protein complexes are particularly needed. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/casp14_call.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/ending_EMDB_header_release.html">Streamlining of EMDB's Map Entry Release Process</a></h4> <p>Beginning April 15 2020, the Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB) will end its practice of releasing map entry metadata (so-called XML header files) prior to release of the primary map and associated files. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/ending_EMDB_header_release.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/coronavirus_resources.html">Coronavirus Resources</a></h4> <p>1 April 2020: To aid COVID-19-related research efforts, we provide here several coronavirus(CoV)-related resources and links, including a <a href="/coronavirus_search.html" target="_blank">new enhanced search for CoV-related maps</a>, and movies comparing SARS spike trimers. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/coronavirus_resources.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/ten_thousand_emdb_entries.html">EMDB reaches 10,000 entries!</a></h4> <p>5 February 2020: Congratulations are in order to the cryo-EM community for reaching a significant new milestone: more than 10,000 maps representing a wide variety of biological assemblies are now available in the EM Data Bank archive. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/ten_thousand_emdb_entries.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/evolving_cryoEM_standards.html">New Publication: Evolving Data Standards for Cryo-EM Structures</a></h4> <p> A publication by members of the EMDR team describing the history of developing data standards for Cryo-EM methods is now available online via the journal Structural Dynamics. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/evolving_cryoEM_standards.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p>  <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_policy_2020.html">EMDB Policies and Procedures Document Now Available</a></h4> <p> To ensure consistent and coherent rules for EMDB data processing, a comprehensive policy and procedures document has been drawn up for the EMDB and is now available to view on the EMDB website. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_policy_2020.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p>   <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_pdb_timestamp_2020.html">Time-stamped Copies of PDB and EMDB Archives</a></h4> <p> Time-stamped snapshots of the PDB and EMDB archives are available as of January 1, 2020. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_pdb_timestamp_2020.html"><strong>Read more...</strong ></a></p>  <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2019" id="y2019"></a>2019 News</h4> <p></p>  <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/wwPDB_EM_validation_reports.html">Additional EM structure validation now available through OneDep</a></h4> <p>Validation reports provided in the wwPDB OneDep system now have additional validation for EM maps to help users identify potential discrepancies in their data. EMDataResource played a key role in development of these new features. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/wwPDB_EM_validation_reports.html"><strong>Read more...</strong ></a></p>   <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/keep_pdb_id.html">Keep your ID: PDB versioning is now available</a></h4> <p>Versioning now allows depositors to update their coordinates while retaining the same PDB accession code. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/keep_pdb_id.html"><strong>Read more...</strong ></a></p>   <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/docs/aca_workshop_2019.html">2019 ACA Cryo-EM Workshop</a></h4> <p>The Workshop on Biological Structure Determination using Cryo-EM was held on July 22-23, 2019 as part of the American Crystallographic Association Annual Meeting in Covington, Kentucky USA. Materials for the workshop can be accessed via this post. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/docs/aca_workshop_2019.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p>   <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/modelchallannounce2019.html">2019 Model Metrics Challenge</a></h4> <p>EMDataResource is trying something new and has put together a smaller, shorter-timeline EM model challenge. The deadline for submission of completed models fitted to target maps (2-3 脜 resolution range) is <span style="text-decoration: line-through;">May 25</span> <b>May 28 (3 PM US Eastern)</b>. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/modelchallannounce2019.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p>   <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_id_expansion_soon.html">Reminder: EMDB Accession Codes are Changing Soon!</a></h4> <p> The allocation of 4 digits for EMDB accession codes will soon come to an end. New EMDB accession codes will include an additional digit and will expand incrementally as the available range of codes is exhausted. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_id_expansion_soon.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p>  <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/rename_emdataresource.html">New Project Name: EMDataResource</a></h4> <p>The EMDataBank/Unified Data Resource for 3DEM Project, established in 2007 to serve the scientific community as a global portal for deposition, search, services, and events rel ated to 3D (cryo) electron microscopy, has a new name: <b>EMDataResource</b>. This name change more clearly distinguishes our collaborative project from the EMDB Map Data Archive.<br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/rename_emdataresource.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2018" id="y2018"></a>2018 News</h4> <p></p>  <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/challengesVSI.html">Joint Map and Model Challenges JSB Virtual Special Issue</a></h4> <p><a href="https://www.journals.elsevier.com/journal-of-structural-biology/thematic-collections/the-cryoem-structure-map-and-model-challenges" target="_blank">"The CryoEM Map and Model Structure Challenges,"</a> a thematic collection of 18 peer-reviewed articles plus editorial being published in the Journal of Structural Biology, is now available online. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/challengesVSI.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p>   <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/aca_workshop_2018.html">The 2018 ACA CryoEM Workshop</a></h4> <p>The Cryo-EM Workshop: A Guide to High Resolution Structure Determination was held on July 21, 2018 as part of the ACA Annual Meeting in Toronto. Materials from the workshop can be accessed through the links below. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/aca_workshop_2018.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p>   <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/orcid_id.html">ORCIDs To Become Mandatory for OneDep Contact Authors</a></h4> <p>The wwPDB OneDep system will require contact authors to provide their unique ORCID identifiers later this summer. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/orcid_id.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p>   <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/onedep_file_replacement.html">OneDep Improvements to Data Replacement Prior to Release; Privacy Policy Update</a></h4> <p>The new version of OneDep improves the process of data replacement for PDB and EMDB entries, prior to their release. In addition, we have udpated the wwPDB privacy policy. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/onedep_file_replacement.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p>   <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_id_expansion.html">Coming Soon: Expansion of EMDB's Accession Code Numerical Range</a></h4> <p> Due to rapid growth, EMDB is running out of 4 digit accession codes. Going forward, EMDB accession codes will have a variable format for their numerical portion. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_id_expansion.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p>   <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/casp13_call.html">Structures Sought for CASP13</a></h4> <p>Critical Assessment of Techniques for Protein Structure Prediction (<a href="http://www.predictioncenter.org" target="_blank">CASP</a>) community experiments aim to advance the state of the art in protein structure modeling. The thirteenth CASP round is scheduled to start on May 1, 2018. <i>The organizing committee is particularly keen to include cryo-EM-derived structure targets in this round.</i> <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/casp13_call.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p>  <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/jsb_special_issue.html">JSB Special Issue on Outcomes of the CryoEM Challenges</a></h4> <p>In collaboration with the Journal of Structural Biology we are in the process of producing a special issue on the 2016 Map and Model Challenges, with Wah Chiu and Cathy Lawson serving as the guest editors. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/jsb_special_issue.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2017" id="y2017"></a>2017 News</h4> <p></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/nobel_prize.html">2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry: Cryo-electron Microscopy</a></h4> <p>Congratulations to Jacques Dubochet, Joachim Frank, and Richard Henderson, who have received the <a href="https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2017/press.html" target="_blank">2017 Nobel Prize in Chemistry</a> for developing cryo-electron microscopy, a technique that allows scientists to visualize the structural details of biological molecules and gain insights into how living systems function. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/nobel_prize.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/challengeswrapup.html">Joint Challenges Wrap-Up Meeting Oct 6-8</a></h4> <p>In 2016 EMDataBank (now EMDataResource) ran two community challenges in parallel to create awareness of the need for cryoEM structure validation as a routine process in research studies and publications, and to expedite development of quantitative tools for assessment. The <a href="http://challenges.emdataresource.org/" target="_blank">Map and Model Challenges</a> were developed by cryoEM and modeling community experts, respectively, who have been charged with developing challenge tasks, promoting worldwide participation, evaluating the results, and producing a report. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/challengeswrapup.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/fileversioningupdate.html">Revise Your Structure Without Changing the PDB Accession Code and Related Changes to the FTP Archive</a></h4> <p>The wwPDB is planning to introduce in 2017 a new procedure for the management by the Depositor of Record (where the Depositor of Record is defined as the Principal Investigator for the entry) of substantial revisions to previously released PDB archival entries. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/fileversioningupdate.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/vrsn_five_archive_update.html">Enriched PDB Structure Entry Files Conforming to OneDep Data Standards Are Now Available for Testing</a></h4> <p>On July 12, 2017, the wwPDB partners plan to update the PDB FTP archive with PDB structure entry files conforming to V5.0 of the <a href="http://mmcif.wwpdb.org/dictionaries/mmcif_pdbx_v50.dic/Index/" target="_blank">PDBx/mmCIF dictionary</a>, which already supports the global wwPDB system for Deposition, Biocuration, and Validation of PDB data - <a href="https://www.wwpdb.org/deposition/system-information" target="_blank">OneDep</a>. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/vrsn_five_archive_update.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/trendsinemdb.html">Trends in EMDB</a></h4> <p>As part of the <a href="http://journals.iucr.org/d/issues/2017/06/00/" target="_blank">Proceedings of the CCP-EM Spring Symposium</a>, Ardan Patawardhan (PDBe) provides an overview of trends affecting the field of cryo-EM, making use of data available in the EMDB archive. Have a look <a href="http://journals.iucr.org/d/issues/2017/06/00/ic5099/index.html" target="_blank" >here</a>. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/trendsinemdb.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/onedeppaper.html">The paper describing wwPDB OneDep system is now available</a></h4> <p>The <a href="http://www.cell.com/structure/fulltext/S0969-2126(17)30004-7" target="_blank">paper</a> describing wwPDB <a href="http://deposit.wwpdb.org/" target="_blank">OneDep system</a> is now available. The wwPDB has deployed a unified system for deposition, biocuration, and validation of macromolecular structures globally across all wwPDB, EMDB, and BMRB deposition sites to meet the evolving requirements of the scientific community to archive structural data over the coming decades. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/onedeppaper.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/china_mirrors_archives.html">EM Archives to be Mirrored in China</a></h4> <p><strong>19 January 2017</strong>: This week, a delegation from the Society of Chinese Cryo Electron Microscopy (SCCEM) visited EMBL-EBI to discuss how cryo-EM data in EMDB and EMPIAR could be made available to users from within China. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/china_mirrors_archives.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2016" id="y2016"></a>2016 News</h4> <p></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/remediation_3dem.html">Remediation of 3DEM Entries in the Protein Data Bank</a></h4> <p>The wwPDB and the <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26578576" target="_blank">EMDataBank/Unified Data Resource for 3DEM Project</a> have collaborated to update the experimental methods descriptions of all electron microscopy and electron crystallography-derived structures in the PDB archive. With this work now completed, all 3DEM-derived entries have better-organized content and conform to the revised data model developed by our team for use within the <a href="http://wwpdb.org/deposition/system-information">wwPDB OneDep System</a>. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/remediation_3dem.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/mapchallengeassessment.html">Map Challenge Assessment Phase is Now Open</a></h4> <p>The Assessment Phase of the Map Challenge is now officially open, and all are welcome to participate. The Challenge Phase (July 2015-Apr 2016) was a tremendous success, with 66 submitted maps spread across the 7 image data benchmark targets. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/mapchallengeassessment.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/remediation_em_pdb.html">Remediation of 3DEM Entries in the Protein Data Bank</a></h4> <p>The wwPDB and the Unified Data Resource for 3DEM Project (<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26578576" target="_blank">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26578576</a>) are collaborating to update the experimental methods descriptions of all electron microscopy and electron crystallography-derived structures in the PDB archive. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/remediation_em_pdb.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/vldtn_server_upgrade.html">wwPDB Validation Server Now Available for 3DEM Model Coordinates</a></h4> <p>The new wwPDB Validation Server at <a href="https://validate.wwpdb.org" target="_blank">https://validate.wwpdb.org</a> now generates preliminary validation reports for structures solved by NMR and 3D Electron Microscopy, in addition to X-ray crystallography. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/vldtn_server_upgrade.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/mapvol_required.html">Announcement: Map Volume Deposition to EMDB Will Be Mandatory for PDB Depositions of 3DEM models Starting September 6th, 2016</a></h4> <p>Effective September 6th, 2016, deposition to the PDB of atomic models determined by 3D Electron cryo-Microscopy (3DEM) will require prior or simultaneous deposition of the associated 3DEM volume maps to EMDB. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/mapvol_required.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/new_nmr_em_vldtnrprts.html">New NMR and 3DEM Validation Reports for Archived PDB Structures</a></h4> <p>The wwPDB Partners and our team are pleased to announce that validation reports for all Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and 3D Cryo Electron Microscopy (3DEM) structures already represented in the global PDB archive have been publicly released. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/new_nmr_em_vldtnrprts.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/dep_systems_retiring.html">EMDep, AutoDep, ADIT Deposition Systems to Be Retired, Effective September 30th 2016</a></h4> <p>Starting May 31st 2016, the legacy deposition systems <a href="/deposit.html" target="_blank">EMDep</a>, <a href="https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/deposition" target="_blank">AutoDep</a>, and <a href="http://em-joint-adit.rutgers.edu/adit/" target="_blank">EM-ADIT</a> will no longer accept new EMDB and PDB submissions. Depositors with in-progress sessions on the legacy systems will be able to access and complete their deposition sessions until September 30th 2016. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/dep_systems_retiring.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/new_validation_reports.html">Coming Soon: New NMR and 3DEM Validation Reports for Archived PDB Structures</a></h4> <p>The wwPDB Partners and our team are pleased to announce that validation reports for all Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) and 3D Cryo Electron Microscopy (3DEM) structures already represented in the global PDB archive will become publicly available in May. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/new_validation_reports.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/scnd_intrntnl_conf_imganalysis.html">2nd International Conference on Image Analysis in 3D Cryo-EM</a></h4> <p>The second International Conference on Image Analysis in Three-dimensional Cryo-EM, will be held at Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, California from March 30 to April 2, 2016. The second workshop in this series will again focus on cutting edge techniques for image analysis in Cryo-EM. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/scnd_intrntnl_conf_imganalysis.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/wwpdb_da.html">wwPDB Deposition & Annotation System Now Available for 3DEM Structures</a></h4> <p>The wwPDB partners and our team are pleased to announce the launch of a new Deposition & Annotation system that supports structures determined using 3DEM, NMR, and X-ray, neutron and electron crystallography. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/wwpdb_da.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2015" id="y2015"></a>2015 News</h4> <p></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/new_publications.html">New Publications</a></h4> <p> New open access articles about our project and EMDB access are now available online, in advance of publication in the upcoming January 2016 Nucleic Acids Research Database Issue. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/new_publications.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/map_challenge_announcements.html">SDSC Offers Supercomputer Resources; Map Challenge Submission Deadline Extended</a></h4> <p>Nov 9, 2015: We have two major announcements regarding the ongoing <a href="http://challenges.emdataresource.org/?q=2015_map_challenge" target="_blank">Map Challenge</a>. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/map_challenge_announcements.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/announcing_model_challenge.html">Announcing the 2015 Model Challenge</a></h4> <p>All members of the Scientific Community--at all levels of experience--are invited to participate as Challengers, and/or as Assessors. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/announcing_model_challenge.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/announcing_map_challenge.html">Announcing the 2015 Map Challenge</a></h4> <p>All members of the Scientific Community--at all levels of experience--are invited to participate as Challengers, and/or as Assessors. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/announcing_map_challenge.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2014" id="y2014"></a>2014 News</h4> <p></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/empiar.html">EMPIAR: Raw Data Image Archive</a></h4> <p>EMPIAR (Electron Microscopy Pilot Image ARchive; <a href="http://pdbe.org/empiar" target="_blank" >http://pdbe.org/empiar</a>) is a public archive for raw image data (micrographs, particles, and tilt-series) related to EMDB entries. Important uses of EMPIAR data include validation and as test-data for methods development and teaching. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/empiar.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/tilt_vldtn_srvr.html">Tilt Validation Server</a></h4> <p>The PDBe tilt-pair validation web-server is now available from: <a href="http://www.pdbe.org/tiltpair" target="_blank">http://www.pdbe.org/tiltpair</a>. You can use this service to perform a tilt-pair analysis on your own data. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/tilt_vldtn_srvr.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/pdbeopenings.html">Scientific Programmer Openings (PDBe)</a></h4> <p>The EMDB team at the Protein Data Bank in Europe (<a href="http://pdbe.org" target="_blank">PDBe</a>) has two vacancies for scientific programmers to work on an exciting new MRC and BBSRC funded project to help bridge the worlds of cellular and molecular structural biology. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/pdbeopenings.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/rawimgdatapilot.html">Raw Image Data Pilot Archive</a></h4> <p>June 2014: Our Partner PDBe was recently awarded funding by MRC and BBSRC to set up a public archive for raw image data (micrographs, particles, and tilt-series) related to EMDB entries. The archive currently contains 7 datasets related to EMDB map entries, including a few multi-frame direct electron detector datasets. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/rawimgdatapilot.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/3dem_vlmsgmntsrvy.html">Please Participate: 3D Volume Segmentation Survey</a></h4> <p> Our Partner PDBe (EBI) and their collaborators at the Science & Technology Facilities Council in Daresbury are developing a web service as part of the <a href="http://www.biomedbridges.eu/workpackages/wp9" target="_blank">BioMedBridges project</a> that will enable the EMDB and PDB archives to be searched on the basis of 3D volumetric shape matching, rather than solely on the basis of metadata and/or coordinate models. The PDBe/STFC Biomedbridges team requests your input on 3D volume segmentation, which in many cases will be a necessary step before volume matching. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/3dem_vlmsgmntsrvy.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/grwth_em_data.html">Growth of EM Structural Data</a></h4> <p> A record number of EM structural data entries were released in 2013: 544 EMDB maps, and 236 EM-PDB models. The overall size of the EM structural data archives has also substantially increased. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/grwth_em_data.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2013" id="y2013"></a>2013 News</h4> <p></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/intnl_cnfrnc_img_anlys.html">International Conference on Image Analysis in 3D Cryo-EM</a></h4> <p>The first International Conference on Image Analysis in Three-dimensional Cryo-EM, to be held at Granlibakken Conference Center, Lake Tahoe, California from March 12 to March 15, 2014. The goal of the Symposium is to discuss state of the art image analysis approaches to tackle challenging biological problems and to identify current limitations and remaining problems in the field as currently practiced. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/intnl_cnfrnc_img_anlys.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/web_vslztn_anlys.html">Web-based visualisation and analysis of 3DEM data</a></h4> <p> Recent improvements to web-based visualisation and analysis of 3DEM data from EMDB and PDB are described in an <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jsb.2013.09.021" target="_blank">open access article</a> published in the November issue of the Journal of Structural Biology. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/web_vslztn_anlys.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/release_policy_poll_news.html">EMDB Release Policy Poll</a></h4> <p>We have created a short online poll to collect your opinions about a possible change to EMDB data release policy. Should complete experimental metadata associated with EMDB map entries continue to be available/searchable prior to map release? <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/release_policy_poll_news.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/journal_dep_rate_policy.html">September 2013: 3DEM Deposition Rate, Journal Policies</a></h4> <p> The use of 3D cryo-electron microscopy reconstruction (3DEM) methods to experimentally determine structures of biological macromolecules, complexes and machines is rapidly increasing in the structural biology community. For journal articles reporting new 3DEM structures via single particle, helical, electron crystallography, and sub-tomogram averaging methods, we find that the overall map-deposition rate to EM Data Bank (EMDB) is approaching 70%. However, the rate varies significantly per journal, and tends to be highest for journals with well-defined and consistently enforced 3DEM deposition policies in place. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/journal_dep_rate_policy.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/lrg_strct_dpstn.html">wwPDB Announcement: Deposition and Release of PDB Entries Containing Large Structures</a></h4> <p> In order to meet the challenges of ever greater numbers of PDB depositions, involving ever larger and more complex structures, often determined using multiple methods, the Worldwide Protein Data Bank partners (wwPDB; <a href="http://wwpdb.org/" target="_blank">http://wwpdb.org/</a>) are developing a completely new system for deposition and annotation of PDB entries. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/lrg_strct_dpstn.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_hdr_update.html">Announcement: EMDB header format update</a></h4> <p> On 16 January 2013, the EMDB archive plans to adopt an updated format, v.1.9.0, for the entry header file (XML file associated with each map). This means that EMDB header files distributed from wwPDB partner sites will conform to the 1.9.0 format, and our deposition/annotation/search services will start using this format. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_hdr_update.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2012" id="y2012"></a>2012 News</h4> <p></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/sept_news.html">September News</a></h4> <strong>Changes to FTP access for map data: reminder</strong> <p>As we announced early in the year, the EMDB map archive is now distributed alongside the PDB archive by all three <a href="http://www.wwpdb.org/" target="_blank">wwPDB</a> partner sites. To download or retrieve EMDB map or header files, please go to one of the three current distribution sites. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/sept_news.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/biopolymers_special_issue.html">Cryo-EM Modeling Challenge Biopolymers Special Issue</a></h4> <p>The <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/bip.v97.9/issuetoc" target="_blank">September 2012 special issue of Biopolymers "2010 Cryo-EM Modeling Challenge"</a> is now online. The issue contents include an editorial and eight articles describing results from the <a href="/news/modeling_chllnge.html">2010 cryo-EM modeling challenge</a>. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/biopolymers_special_issue.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/twelve_golden_rules.html">Twelve golden rules for deposition of EM data in EMDB and PDB</a></h4> <p>Every now and then depositors of EM data approach us with questions (or gripes) about the deposition process, in particular when both a map and a model are to be deposited. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/twelve_golden_rules.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/tomograph_requirements.html">Proposed Deposition Requirements for Tomographic Data</a></h4> <p>Tomographic data deposition was the main topic of an informal afternoon meeting at the 2012 3DEM GRC that drew ~20 conferees. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/tomograph_requirements.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/ccp_em_positions.html">CCP-EM Positions Available</a></h4> <p> A new MRC Partnership grant to provide computational support for UK scientists using electron cryo-microscopy for structural biology will aim to create a new Collaborative Computational Project, CCP-EM. Two excellent, motivated computational scientists are sought to support the Partnership grant and CCP-EM project. For details please view the full announcement <a href="http://www.mail-archive.com/ccp4bb@jiscmail.ac.uk/msg26142.html" target="_blank" >here</a>. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/ccp_em_positions.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_joins_pdb.html">EM Data Bank joins the PDB archive</a></h4> <p><strong>7-March-2012</strong>: The EM Data Bank (EMDB), the primary archive for experimentally-determined maps obtained using three-dimensional electron microscopy methods, has joined the PDB archive (<a href="https://files.wwpdb.org" target="_blank">https://files.wwpdb.org)</a>, as <a href="/news/emdb_wwpdb_announce.html" >announced previously</a>. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_joins_pdb.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/em_vtf.html">A vision for validation of 3DEM maps and map-derived models</a></h4> <p>We are pleased to announce the publication of the outcome of the first Electron Microscopy Validation Task Force (EM VTF) meeting in the journal Structure: <a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2011.12.014" target="_blank">Henderson et al., Structure (2012)</a>. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/em_vtf.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/hybrid_methods.html">Announcement: Meeting on Hybrid Methods</a></h4> <p>The <a href="http://www.hybridmethodsconference.com/" target="_blank" >6th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Supramolecular Assemblies by Hybrid Methods</a> will be held March 14-18, 2012 in Lake Tahoe, CA. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/hybrid_methods.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_wwpdb_announce.html">EM Data Bank to join the PDB archive</a></h4> <p>The EM Data Bank (EMDB), the primary archive for experimentally-determined maps obtained using three-dimensional electron microscopy methods, will join the <a href="https://files.wwpdb.org" target="_blank">PDB archive</a> on 7 March 2012. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_wwpdb_announce.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/improved_3d_viewing.html">Improved 3D Viewing for EM Maps and Models</a></h4> <p>We are pleased to announce improved 3D web-based viewing of maps and associated coordinate models from our atlas pages. The molecular visualization program OpenAstexViewer has been adapted by the our team to display EM maps and their associated coordinate models. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/improved_3d_viewing.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2011" id="y2011"></a>2011 News</h4> <p></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/pdb40.html">PDB40 Symposium</a></h4> <p>In October 2011, the Worldwide Protein Data Bank (wwPDB) will host a scientific symposium celebrating the 40th anniversary of the inception of the PDB, and the many scientific contributions it archives. The program will showcase the scientific impact made by structural biology during the past 40 years with a distinguished panel of scientists who have been instrumental in the development of the PDB and structural biology. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/pdb40.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/cryoem_mdl_challng_update.html">Cryo-EM Modeling Challenge Update: Biopolymers Special Issue Call For Papers</a></h4> <p>A special issue of <a href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291097-0282" target="_blank">Biopolymers</a> will cover the results of the <a href="http://ncmi.bcm.edu/challenge" target="_blank">first Cryo-EM Modeling Challenge</a> held in 2010 with accompanying <a href="http://eproceedings.worldscinet.com/9789814335058/9789814335058_0039.html" target="_blank">workshop at PSB 2011</a>. The challenge was very successful with 136 models submitted by 10 different research groups using 13 different software packages. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/cryoem_mdl_challng_update.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/thousand_emdb_entries.html">EMDB reaches 1000 entries!</a></h4> <p><b>February 2011: </b> Congratulations are in order to the cryoEM community for reaching a significant milestone: more than 1000 maps representing a wide variety of biological assemblies are now archived in the EM DataBank. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/thousand_emdb_entries.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/updated_hold_policy.html">Announcement - Change in EMDB Hold Policy for Maps</a></h4> <p>Effective January 2011, the option to hold EM map volumes for two years before release to the public will no longer be available. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/updated_hold_policy.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdatabank_new_publications.html">New Publications</a></h4> <p>Up-to-date information about our project including history, current status, and future plans can be found in two publications now available online and in press. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdatabank_new_publications.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2010" id="y2010"></a>2010 News</h4> <p></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/map_uniformity.html">Improved Uniformity of the EMDB Map Archive</a></h4> <p><b>September 2010</b>: We are pleased to announce that a more uniform set of maps is now available through our search services and ftp mirror sites. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/map_uniformity.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/proj_leader_vacancy.html">EM Project Leader Position at PDBe</a></h4> <p><b>July 2010</b>: The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; pdbe.org) has a vacancy for the Project Leader Electron Microscopy position. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/proj_leader_vacancy.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/modeling_chllnge.html">Announcement: 2010 Cryo-EM Modeling Challenge and PSB 2011 Workshop</a></h4> <p>2010 Cryo-EM Modeling Challenge and PSB 2011 workshop organized by Steven Ludtke, Wah Chiu, Helen Berman and Gerard Kleywegt. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/modeling_chllnge.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/remediated_maps.html">Remediated Maps Available in Beta</a></h4> <p><b>June 2010</b>: The EmDataBank.org team is nearing completion of a major project to improve uniformity, viewability and useability of the 730+ map volumes in the EMDB that are currently available for download. Please read on to learn more about this project, and how to access the remediated maps. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/remediated_maps.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_wkly_rel_cycle.html">EMDB Weekly Release Cycle</a></h4> <p>You may have noticed that this site is updated on a weekly basis. EMDB's weekly release cycle is also now synchronized with wwPDB's release cycle. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/emdb_wkly_rel_cycle.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/modelling_cryoem_wkshp.html">Modelling of CryoEM Maps Workshop</a></h4> <p>You have a brand new cryoEM density map of a biological assembly and want to generate a realistic coordinate model that fits the density. How should you proceed?  This was the primary topic of discussion at the Modelling of CryoEM maps workshop held at the University of Houston on January 14-18, 2010. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/modelling_cryoem_wkshp.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2009" id="y2009"></a>2009 News</h4> <p></p> <h4><a href="/news/2009nov_nramm_wkshp.html">Advanced Topics EM Structure Determination Workshop</a></h4> <p>The <a href="http://nramm.scripps.edu/seminars/2009/cryoem/" target="_blank">Workshop on Advanced Topics in EM Structure Determination: Challenging Molecules</a> held Nov 8-13, 2009 at the National Resource for Automated Molecular Microscopy (NRAMM) at the Scripps Research Institute, was an intellectually stimulating meeting with over 100 attendees and an outstanding set of instructors. The meeting featured extensive discussion of challenges faced using cryoEM to solve macromolecules that are either small or conformationally variable in structure... <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/2009nov_nramm_wkshp.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/ribosomes_in_emdb.html">Ribosomes in the EMDB</a></h4> <p>7 October 2009: This morning, the recipients of the <a href="http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/chemistry/laureates/2009/" target="_blank">2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry</a> were announced. V. Ramakrishnan, T. A. Steitz, and A. E. Yonath will share the award for their studies on the structure and function of the ribosome. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/ribosomes_in_emdb.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a href="/news/sept2009em_mtgs.html">September 2009 EM Meetings</a></h4> <p>Christoph Best (PDBe) gave a presentation on how to deposit and retrieve data sets in the EMDB at the 10-day <a href="http://www.ismb.lon.ac.uk/embocourse.html" target="_blank">EMBO Course in Cryo-Electron Microscopy</a> at Birkbeck College, London organized by Elena Orlova and Helen Saibil. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/sept2009em_mtgs.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a href="/news/2009_3dem_grc.html">2009 3DEM GRC</a></h4> <p>The <a href="http://www.grc.org/programs.aspx?year=2009&program=threedim" target="_blank">2009 3DEM Gordon Research Conference</a> in New London, NH was an exciting meeting with a full roster of excellent presentations and ample time for informal discussions. Team members Christoph Best (PDBe) and Cathy Lawson (RCSB-PDB) presented a poster describing recent progress towards creating a unified data resource for cryoEM. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/2009_3dem_grc.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a href="/news/newemdbsvcs.html">New EMDB Services</a></h4> <p>March 2009: We are pleased to announce improvements to EM Databank deposition and retrieval services hosted by PDBe (Europe) and RCSB PDB (USA). <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/newemdbsvcs.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a href="/news/pdbsymmetry.html">Symmetry Representation in the PDB</a></h4> <p>An <a href="http://journals.iucr.org/d/issues/2008/08/00/mv5020/index.html" target="_blank">open access article </a> published in the August 2008 issue of Acta Crystallographica Section D describes the new scheme used by the PDB to archive regular non-crystallographic symmetry information for large biological assemblies. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/pdbsymmetry.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2008" id="y2008"></a>2008 News</h4> <p></p> <h4><a href="/deposit.html">Deposit Maps at EBI or RCSB</a></h4> <p>Feb 2008: Electron microscopy map data can now be deposited to the EMDB using the improved web-based tool EmDep2. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/deposit.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <h4><a href="/news/2d_crystalworkshop.html">2D Crystal Workshop</a></h4> <p>Jan 2008: An informal one day workshop organized by Wah Chiu and Cathy Lawson was held on Jan 15, 2008 at the UCSF Mission Bay Campus. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/2d_crystalworkshop.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a></p> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="y2007" id="y2007"></a>2007 News</h4> <p></p> <h4><a href="/news/unifieddataresource.html">Unified Data Resource for CryoEM</a></h4> <p>Aug 2007: An NIH/NIGMS-funded collaboration to create a unified data resource for large complexes determined by cryo-electron microscopy has been established between the <a href="http://www.ebi.ac.uk/msd/About.html" target="_blank">Macromolecular Structure Database Group</a> at the European Bioinformatics Institute, the <a href="https://www.rcsb.org" target="_blank">Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics</a> at Rutgers, and the <a href="http://ncmi.bcm.edu/ncmi" target="_blank">National Center for Macromolecular Imaging</a> at Baylor College of Medicine. <br /><a title="Read the rest of this posting." href="/news/unifieddataresource.html"><strong>Read more...</strong></a> <hr noshade="noshade" /> <h4><a name="older" id="older"></a>Older News</h4> <p></p> <h4><a href="/news/outreach_history.html">EM Community Outreach History</a></h4> <p>In order to develop a community data resource, it is necessary to solicit input from representative members of the scientific community. 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