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Features & Highlights
Register for the March 13 Virtual Office Hour on Supporting Extended PDB IDs - Copy
Interested in learning more about plans to extend PDB IDs to 12 characters? Bring you questions to a virtual Office Hour.
Watch the Webinar: Exploring the Workhorses of Biotechnology
Learn how to use RCSB.org to analyze plastic-degrading enzymes
Watch the Webinar: Exploring Integrative Structures with RCSB.org
Learn how to explore PDB structures determined using integrative and hybrid methods with RCSB PDB tools
Watch the Exploring CSMs at RCSB.org Office Hour
Learn how to use RCSB.org features to navigate 3D Computed Structure Models from AlphaFold DB and ModelArchive
Watch the Virtual Office Hour on Structure Summary Pages
Learn how a exploring a single PDB structure at RCSB.org can lead to visualizations, analyses, and searches across the archive
Watch the Tutorial: Introduction to Molecular Animation
Learn how to use ChimeraX to create simple animations that can enrich your presentations, websites, and social media
Register for PDB Workshops at IUCr2026
Join wwPDB for hands-on workshops to learn how to deposit IHM structures determined using 3DEM plus chemical crosslinking and how to leverage various OneDep features and tools for efficient PDB deposition
Learn to Use Mol* for 3D Visualization
Videos and tutorials are available to help users become Mol* experts
Milestone: >20,000 Structures Deposited to the PDB in 2025
wwPDB has received a record number of depositions this year
Watch the Webinar: Searching the PDB for high-quality ligand-bound structures
Learn how to search the PDB for the best examples of ligands using text, chemical drawing, and APIs
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Impact of PDB Structures on Anti-Cancer Drug Approvals
Open access to PDB data facilitates discovery and development of life saving drugs.» 01/27/2026
January is Cervical Cancer Awareness Month
Visit PDB-101 to learn how the capsid protein of papillomavirus is used in vaccines that prevent cervical cancer» 01/20/2026
PDB-101 Focus in 2026: Biotechnology
PDB-101 materials explore how researchers are using biology in industry» 01/06/2026
Molecular Explorations for 2026
Download our new calendar that highlights the work of Molecule of the Month creator Janet Iwasa» 12/28/2025
PDB-101 Focus: Peak Performance
PDB-101 materials explore the structural biology of nutrition.» 12/15/2025
Structural Biology and Nobel Prizes
The Nobel Prize Award ceremony will take place on December 10. Visit PDB-101 to explore connections between Nobel Prizes and more than 50 years of open access to the PDB archive.» 12/07/2025
December 1: World AIDS Day
Watch the documentary Target Zero to learn about the challenge and emotional complexity of the fight to control HIV infection» 11/27/2025
Poster Prize Awarded at The Protein Society
Congratulations to Emily Schaffter (Clark University) for Differential Interactions between Calmodulin and the IQ Motifs of the HECT E3 Ubiquitin Ligases UBE3B and UBE3C» 11/25/2025
Quarterly News (see archive)
Issue 107 - October 2025
This issue highlights Extended PDB IDs; the Pairwise Alignment Tool, a new animation on Caffeine and Adenosine, and more.
Education Corner: Learn how CCDC is Celebrating 60 Years of Research and Education with Small Molecules.
Annual Reports
2024 Annual Report
Download the 2024 Annual Report (PDF) for an overview of recent activities and the global impact of PDB data and RCSB PDB services.
