DATA DEPOSITION AND ANNOTATION

Deposition Statistics

In the first quarter of 2011, 2205 experimentally-determined structures were deposited to the PDB archive. The entries were processed and annotated by wwPDB teams at the RCSB PDB, PDBe, and PDBj.

Of the structures deposited, 80.4% were deposited with a release status of "hold until publication"; 17.6% were released as soon as annotation of the entry was complete; and 2.0% were held until a particular date. 92.9% of these entries were determined by X-ray crystallographic methods; 6.2% were determined by NMR methods.

During the same time period, 1914 structures were released in the PDB.

BioSync News


Diamond Celebrates Milestone 500 Structures
Diamond Light Source celebrated their 500th PDB entry by highlighting some of the structures determined along the way at www.diamond.ac.uk/Home/Media/LatestNews/17_03_11.html

Online Guide to High Energy Data Collection Facilities
BioSync provides current information about synchrotrons located worldwide. Visit biosync.sbkb.org to explore the types of services and facilities available at each location and view detailed statistics about related PDB depositions. Synchrotron structures deposited in the PDB (total and by region). More than 47,000 structures have been solved by the worldwide synchrotron community; close to 23,000 of these structures are from beamlines located in the US. Image from BioSync.



Synchrotron structures deposited in the PDB (total and by region). More than 47,000 structures have been solved by the worldwide synchrotron community; close to 23,000 of these structures are from beamlines located in the US. Image from BioSync.

wwPDB News


PDB Archive Version 4.0 to be Released June 2011
The wwPDB has performed an ambitious review of the PDB archive and has created a new set of corrected files that will be released in June 2011. Version 4.0 PDB entries will follow the PDB Exchange Dictionary v.4.0. The entire archive has been reviewed and remediated with the objective of tackling complex problems. These include the representation of biological assemblies, residual B factors, peptide inhibitors and antibiotics, and entries in the nonstandard crystal frame. A description of the review and resulting changes and corrections is available at www.wwpdb.org (PDF).

Time-stamped Copies of PDB Archive Available via FTP
A snapshot of the PDB archive (ftp.wwpdb.org) as of January 3, 2011 has been added to ftp://snapshots.wwpdb.org. Snapshots have been archived annually since January 2005 to provide readily identifiable data sets for research on the PDB archive. The script at ftp://snapshots.wwpdb.org/rsyncSnapshots.sh can create a local copy of a snapshot or sections of the snapshot.