[X-plor] PDBe annotates its 10,000th structure

[Gerard DVD Kleywegt]

In June 1999, staff of the Macromolecular Structure Database (MSD; nowadays 
known as the Protein Data Bank in Europe, http://pdbe.org/) at the European 
Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI; http://www.ebi.ac.uk/) began annotating 
PDB entries. Now, eleven years later, PDBe has annotated its 10,000th 
structure, 2YF6 (http://pdbe.org/2yf6). This structure is of a chicken 
MHC/peptide complex and was determined in the group of Susan Lea at the 
University of Oxford.

You can read more about this milestone in the Wellcome Trust blog at 
http://wellcometrust.wordpress.com/2011/04/20/10000th-structure-curated-by-the-protein-data-bank-in-europe/

This month's episode of Quips is also dedicated to 2YF6 - see 
http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe-apps/quips?story=MHCstory

For some early history of MSD/PDBe, see 
http://www.riethoven.org/BioInformer/newsletter/archives/6/msd.html

We are grateful to all the structural biologists who have deposited their 
structures with PDBe and look forward to annotating the next 10,000 entries!

--Gerard

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Gerard J. Kleywegt, PDBe, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK
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