Winter News: 2026 IUCr workshops; 2025 in review, and a new molecular animation highlighting Vitamin A and Vision.

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No images? Click here RCSB PDB Newsletter: Winter 2026 Message from the RCSB PDB wwPDB will be part of the 27th Congress and General Assembly of the International Union of Crystallography to be held August 11-18, 2026 in Calgary, Alberta (Canada).  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. Register for the January 22 Virtual Office Hour on Extended PDB IDs and the Beta PDB Archive Interested in learning more about plans to extend PDB IDs to 12 characters? Want to learn more about the beta PDB archive? Bring your questions to a virtual Office Hour. MORE Register for the January 26 Webinar on Advanced Search Learn what is new in the redesigned Advanced Search feature and how to use it in this webinar. MORE   Deposition/Biocuration Services and Archive Management In 2025, 20,974 experimentally-determined structures were deposited to the PDB archive.  Data are processed by wwPDB partners RCSB PDB, PDBe, PDBj and PDBc. MORE Announcements Coming Soon: Remediation of Metalloprotein-containing PDB Entries and CCDs Milestone: >20,000 Structures Deposited to the PDB in 2025 Time-stamped Copies of PDB and EMDB Archives wwPDB Shared Responsibilities on Data Processing   Data Exploration Services Subscribe to API News Stay up-to-date with web service developments and announcements from RCSB PDB. MORE Explore Structural Biology with CSMs Visit PDB-101 for more about Nobel Prize-winning Computed Structure Models and their measures of reliability; limitations; and how they can help determine experimental structures. MORE   Training, Outreach, and Education   Molecular Explorations for 2026 Download our new calendar that highlights the work of Molecule of the Month creator Janet Iwasa. MORE PDB-101 Focus in 2026: Biotechnology PDB-101 materials explore how researchers are using biology in industry. MORE Top Molecules of the Month in 2025 Read about the articles that were read the most in 2025. MORE Poster Prizes Awarded The wwPDB Foundation made awards for outstanding student presentations at LACA and The Protein Society meetings. MORE   New at PDB-101: Explore GFP Tutorial Green Fluorescent Protein (GFP) is a well-studied protein that exhibits fluorescence when exposed to ultraviolet or blue light, making it a powerful tool in molecular biology and biotechnology. MORE   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 MORE   Video: Vitamin A and Vision Carrots contain beta-carotene. Our bodies convert it into a form of Vitamin A called retinal. Retinal is important for the first chemical step in human vision, called phototransduction. MORE       RCSB Protein Data Bank is managed by Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey; University of California, San Diego/San Diego Supercomputer Center; and University of California San Francisco. RCSB PDB Core Operations are funded by the US National Science Foundation (DBI-2321666), the US Department of Energy (DE-SC0019749), and the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant R01GM157729. RCSB PDB uses resources of the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center (NERSC), a Department of Energy User Facility.