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Deposition Statistics
In the third quarter of 2018, 3113 experimentally-determined structures were deposited to the PDB archive for a total of 9145 entries deposited in the year. Data are processed by wwPDB partners RCSB PDB, PDBe, and PDBj.
Of the structures deposited in 2018 so far, 88.0% were deposited with a release status of hold until publication; 7.4% were released as soon as annotation of the entry was complete; and 4.6% were held until a particular date.
87.8% of these entries were determined by X-ray crystallographic methods; 3.6% were determined by NMR methods; and 8.2% by 3DEM.
During the same time quarter, 3092 structures and 523 EMDB maps were released in the PDB.
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