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Abstract

The Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB) is the global public archive of three-dimensional electron microscopy (3DEM) maps of biological specimens derived from transmission electron microscopy experiments. As of 2021, EMDB is managed by the Worldwide Protein Data Bank consortium (wwPDB; wwpdb.org) as a wwPDB Core Archive, and the EMDB team is a core member of the consortium. Today, EMDB houses over 30 000 entries with maps containing macromolecules, complexes, viruses, organelles and cells. Herein, we provide an overview of the rapidly growing EMDB archive, including its current holdings, recent updates, and future plans.

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Figure 1.
Figure 1.
(A) Cumulative number of all EMDB entries and of those with an atomic coordinate structure in the PDB at the end of each year. *2023 data are through October 4th. (B) Number of annually released EMDB and PDB entries. EMDB data includes all modalities. PDB data is split according to X-ray and EM models released per year. Data is shown until the end of 2022 (dashed black line) with trendlines showing predicted future growth.
Figure 2.
Figure 2.
(A) Proportion of the EMDB archive contributed by each modality as of the end of 2022. (B) Proportion of released entries in various resolution (Å) shells per year from 2002 to 2022. Note the huge impact of the resolution revolution since 2014.
Figure 3.
Figure 3.
(A) Monthly counts of the number of downloads by unique users each month (solid line, left axis) and the total amount of data served (dashed line, right axis). (B) Quarterly counts of the total number of downloads of EMDB data from all wwPDB FTP sites.
Figure 4.
Figure 4.
The average number of EMDB entries associated with a single publication per year.
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