EMDataBank news items http://www.emdatabank.org/allnews.html Wed., 22 May 2013 12:00:00 EST en-us 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; http://wwpdb.org/) are developing a completely new system for deposition and annotation of PDB entries. http://www.emdatabank.org/lrg_strct_dpstn.html http://www.emdatabank.org/lrg_strct_dpstn.html 2013-05-22 12:00:00 EST 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 EMDataBank deposition/annotation/search services will start using this format. http://www.emdatabank.org/emdb_hdr_update.html http://www.emdatabank.org/emdb_hdr_update.html 2012-12-11 12:00:00 EST Changes to FTP access for map data: reminder. As we announced early in the year, the EMDB map archive is now distributed alongside the PDB archive by all three wwPDB partner sites. To download or retrieve EMDB map or header files, please go to one of the three current distribution sites. http://www.emdatabank.org/sept_news.html http://www.emdatabank.org/sept_news.html 2012-09-26 12:00:00 EST The September 2012 special issue of Biopolymers "2010 Cryo-EM Modeling Challenge" is now online. The issue contents include an editorial and eight articles describing results from the 2010 cryo-EM modeling challenge. http://www.emdatabank.org/biopolymers_special_issue.html http://www.emdatabank.org/biopolymers_special_issue.html 2012-08-08 12:00:00 EST 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. http://www.emdatabank.org/twelve_golden_rules.html http://www.emdatabank.org/twelve_golden_rules.html 2012-07-24 12:00:00 EST Tomographic data deposition was the main topic of an informal afternoon meeting at the 2012 3DEM GRC that drew ~20 conferees. http://www.emdatabank.org/tomograph_requirements.html http://www.emdatabank.org/tomograph_requirements.html 2012-06-25 12:00:00 EST 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. http://www.emdatabank.org/ccp_em_positions.html http://www.emdatabank.org/ccp_em_positions.html 2012-04-05 12:00:00 EST 7-March-2012: The EM Data Bank (EMDB), the primary archive for experimentally-determined maps obtained using three-dimensional electron microscopy methods, has joined the PDB archive (ftp://ftp.wwpdb.org), as announced previously. http://www.emdatabank.org/emdb_joins_pdb.html http://www.emdatabank.org/emdb_joins_pdb.html 2012-03-07 12:00:00 EST 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 (Henderson et al., Structure (2012)) http://www.emdatabank.org/em_vtf.html http://www.emdatabank.org/em_vtf.html 2012-02-08 12:00:00 EST The 6th International Conference on Structural Analysis of Supramolecular Assemblies by Hybrid Methods will be held March 14-18, 2012 in Lake Tahoe, CA. http://www.emdatabank.org/hybrid_methods.html http://www.emdatabank.org/hybrid_methods.html 2012-01-15 12:00:00 EST The EM Data Bank (EMDB), the primary archive for experimentally-determined maps obtained using three-dimensional electron microscopy methods, will join the PDB archive on 7 March 2012. http://www.emdatabank.org/emdb_wwpdb_announce.html http://www.emdatabank.org/emdb_wwpdb_announce.html 2011-12-23 12:00:00 EST We are pleased to announce improved 3D web-based viewing of maps and associated coordinate models from EMDataBank atlas pages. The molecular visualization program OpenAstexViewer has been adapted by the EMDataBank team to display EM maps and their associated coordinate models. http://www.emdatabank.org/improved_3d_viewing.html http://www.emdatabank.org/improved_3d_viewing.html 2011-10-05 12:00:00 EST 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. http://www.emdatabank.org/pdb40.html http://www.emdatabank.org/pdb40.html 2011-06-10 12:00:00 EST A special issue of Biopolymers will cover the results of the first Cryo-EM Modeling Challenge held in 2010 with accompanying workshop at PSB 2011. The challenge was very successful with 136 models submitted by 10 different research groups using 13 different software packages. http://www.emdatabank.org/cryoem_mdl_challng_update.html http://www.emdatabank.org/cryoem_mdl_challng_update.html 2011-05-12 12:00:00 EST February 2011: 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. http://www.emdatabank.org/thousand_emdb_entries.html http://www.emdatabank.org/thousand_emdb_entries.html 2011-02-17 12:00:00 EST Effective January 2011, the option to hold EM map volumes for two years before release to the public will no longer be available. http://www.emdatabank.org/updated_hold_policy.html http://www.emdatabank.org/updated_hold_policy.html 2010-11-15 12:00:00 EST Up-to-date information about EMDataBank.org including history, current status, and future plans can be found in two publications now available online and in press. http://www.emdatabank.org/emdatabank_new_publications.html http://www.emdatabank.org/emdatabank_new_publications.html 2010-10-15 12:00:00 EST September 2010: We are pleased to announce that a more uniform set of maps is now available through EMDataBank.org search services and ftp mirror sites. http://www.emdatabank.org/map_uniformity.html http://www.emdatabank.org/map_uniformity.html 2010-09-14 12:00:00 EST