Annual Scientific Report 2015

Protein Data Bank in Europe
Gerard Kleywegt and Sameer Velankar
• Curated a record 4007 PDB entries;
• Curated 452 EMDB entries;
• Released 22 new EMPIAR entries;
• In collaboration with partners in the US and Japan,
extended the wwPDB deposition and annotation software,
as well as the wwPDB structure-validation pipelines, to fully
support 3DEM and NMR data;
• Further developed EMPIAR, a rapidly growing public
archive for raw 3DEM and tomography image data;
• Released the fully redesigned PDBe website (including the
PDB and EMDB entry pages), a powerful new search system
and an API;
• Improved and extended the internal production process and
data and database infrastructure to support the new website,
search system and API;
• Intensified outreach and training efforts, ranging from
social media to expert workshops.
PDB entry 1TN2: A transfer RNA (tRNA) molecule
structure determined by Aaron Klug. Aaron Klug developed
crystallographic electron microscopy methods and
elucidated the structure of tRNA, the nucleosome and the
zinc-finger DNA-binding domain. For his work on these
biologically important nucleic acid-protein complexes he
received the 1982 Nobel Prize in Chemistry.
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