EMDataBank news items http://www.emdatabank.org/allnews.html Wed., 08 Feb 2012 10:15:00 EST en-us 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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