With this week's update, the PDB archive has passed the milestone of 150,000 entries, and now contains a total of 150,145.
With this week's regular update, the PDB welcomes 262 new structures into the archive. These structures join others vital to research and education in fundamental biology, biomedicine, and bioenergy. Since its inception, the size of the archive has increased tenfold roughly every 10-15 years: the PDB reached 100 released entries in 1982, 1000 entries in 1993, and 10,000 in the year 2000. Now that the 150,000th is made available, more than half of the archive has been released in the past ten years. The scientific community eagerly awaits the next 150,000 structures and the invaluable knowledge these new data will bring. However, the increasing number, size and complexity of biological data being deposited in the PDB and the emergence of hybrid structure determination methods constitute major challenges for the management and representation of structural data. wwPDB will continue to work with the community to meet these challenges and ensure that the archive maintains the highest possible standards of quality, integrity, and consistency. Development and future of the PDB archive and wwPDB organization is described in the new reference publication for the PDB archive: Protein Data Bank: the single global archive for 3D macromolecular structure data ( <https://doi.org/10.1093/nar/gky949> Nucleic Acids Res., 2019) and many other papers, including Protein Data Bank (PDB): The Single Global Macromolecular Structure Archive ( <http://dx.doi.org/%2010.1007/978-1-4939-7000-1> Methods in Molecular Biology, 2017), How community has shaped the Protein Data Bank ( <http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2013.07.010> Structure, 2013), and Creating a Community Resource for Protein Science ( <http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/pro.2154/abstract> Protein Science, 2012). <https://www.wwpdb.org/about/publications.php> A full list is available. For the full story see the wwPDB news release <https://www.wwpdb.org/news/news?year=2019#5c8c2db1ea7d0653b99c8774> The wwPDB -- John Berrisford PDBe European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) European Molecular Biology Laboratory Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SD UK Tel: +44 1223 492529 <http://www.pdbe.org/> http://www.pdbe.org <http://www.facebook.com/proteindatabank> http://www.facebook.com/proteindatabank <http://twitter.com/PDBeurope> http://twitter.com/PDBeurope ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1
