Spring News: New Advanced Search Features; the new Beta PDB Archive, Mol* training videos, and more

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RCSB PDB Newsletter: Spring 2026 Message from the RCSB PDB: Remembering Phil Bourne Philip E. Bourne, one of the founding members of the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB), passed away on March 8, 2026. He served as RCSB PDB Associate Director from 1998-2013. MORE   Upcoming Training Events The webinar is intended for: Professional scientists in the biosciences starting to code Post-docs and graduate students who want to bring coding into their learning Instructors involved in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education   Deposition/Biocuration Services and Archive Management In the first quarter of 2026, 5306 experimentally-determined structures were deposited to the PDB archive. Data are processed by wwPDB partners RCSB PDB, PDBe, PDBj and PDBc. MORE Depositors: CASP Needs Targets! Learn how you can help advance the frontiers of structural biology PDB Reaches a New Milestone: >250,000 entries A PDB Beta Archive is now available to help the PDB community adopt extended PDB IDs and the PDBx/mmCIF format during the transition phase. All files at this archive are re-organized with extended PDB ID (including file naming and directories) at entry level, mirroring the same data organization of the PDB Versioned Archive. This Beta Archive will become the PDB archive on July 21, 2027. MORE Register for the April 23 Open Discussion–Deposition, Validation, and Biocuration Bring your questions about Deposition, Validation, and or Biocuration to this Office Hour. Biocurators will answer general questions about the process or about your specific entry or session. MORE   Data Exploration Services Advanced Search Redesigned to Drive 3D Structure Discovery RCSB PDB has released an updated Advanced Search interface to provide a cleaner, more intuitive experience while enhancing support for exploring 3D structures across both experimentally determined structures and Computed Structure Models (CSMs). Unlike the top-bar Basic Search, Advanced Search offers fine-grained control over which data fields to search, the type of search to perform, and how results are combined. MORE 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. MORE Paper Published: Delivering integrative structures alongside experimental structures and CSMs Learn how RCSB.org supports discovery, analysis, and visualization of integrative structures together with single-method experimental structures and computed structure models MORE Usage Statistics In 2025, ~3.3 billion data files in various file formats, were downloaded and/or viewed from RCSB PDB-hosted servers. Additional data were downloaded from wwPDB partners PDBe and PDBj, giving a total of more than 4.7 billion downloads.  MORE   Training, Outreach, and Education Take the RCSB PDB Survey and Win RCSB PDB wants to learn how users are utilizing integrative (IHM) structures and Computed Structure Models (CSMs) at RCSB.org. Please take this brief survey to help us better understand RCSB PDB usage and user interests. Impact of PDB on Anti-Cancer Drug Approvals A new flyer highlights the Impact of PDB Structures on US FDA Anti-Cancer Drug Approvals (2010-2023). MORE Learn to Use Mol* for 3D Visualization Videos and tutorials are available to help users become Mol* experts. MORE Meeting Reports: Biophysical Society and ASBMB Congratulations to Haley R. Johnson (Baylor College of Medicine) and to Sara Scanlan (James Madison University) for their awards from the wwPDB Foundation. 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.