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2010-07-28: 877 EMDB map entries, 321 PDB coordinate entries
EM Project Leader Position at PDBe
July 2010: The Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; pdbe.org) has a vacancy for the Project Leader Electron Microscopy position.
Announcement: 2010 Cryo-EM Modeling Challenge and PSB 2011 Workshop
2010 Cryo-EM Modeling Challenge and PSB 2011 workshop organized by Steven Ludtke, Wah Chiu, Helen Berman and Gerard Kleywegt.
Remediated Maps Available in Beta
June 2010: 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.
EMDB Weekly Release Cycle
You may have noticed that the emdatabank.org site is updated on a weekly basis. EMDB's weekly release cycle is also now synchronized with wwPDB's release cycle.
Modelling of CryoEM Maps Workshop
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.
Advanced Topics EM Structure Determination Workshop
The Workshop on Advanced Topics in EM Structure Determination: Challenging Molecules 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...
Ribosomes in the EMDB
7 October 2009: This morning, the recipients of the 2009 Nobel Prize for Chemistry 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.
September 2009 EM Meetings
Christoph Best (PDBe) gave a presentation on how to deposit and retrieve data sets in the EMDB at the 10-day EMBO Course in Cryo-Electron Microscopy at Birkbeck College, London organized by Elena Orlova and Helen Saibil.
2009 3DEM GRC
The 2009 3DEM Gordon Research Conference in New London, NH was an exciting meeting with a full roster of excellent presentations and ample time for informal discussions. EMDataBank.org team members Christoph Best (PDBe) and Cathy Lawson (RCSB-PDB) presented a poster describing recent progress towards creating a unified data resource for cryoEM
New EMDB Services
March 2009: We are pleased to announce improvements to EM Databank deposition and retrieval services hosted by PDBe (Europe) and RCSB PDB (USA).
Symmetry Representation in the PDB
An open access article 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.
Deposit Maps at EBI or RCSB
Feb 2008: Electron microscopy map data can now be deposited to the EMDB using the improved web-based tool EmDep2.
2D Crystal Workshop
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.
Unified Data Resource for CryoEM
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 Macromolecular Structure Database Group at the European Bioinformatics Institute, the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics at Rutgers, and the National Center for Macromolecular Imaging at Baylor College of Medicine.
Read moreEM Community Outreach History
In order to develop a community data resource, it is necessary to solicit input from representative members of the scientific community. Below is a summary of past workshops devoted to exchange of cryoEM data that have been organized by members of our project group and other leaders in cryoEM.
Nov 2002, IIMS Workshop, organized by Kim Henrick, Jose-Maria Carazo (Madrid), and Stephen Fuller (Oxford), held at Hinxton, Cambridge, UK, workshop report
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