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From today, July 1st 2019, submission of PDBx/mmCIF format files for crystallographic depositions to the PDB is mandatory.
Refmac, Phenix.refine, and Buster programs can now output PDBx/mmCIF formatted files. For users of other structure determination/refinement software packages, the wwPDB provides stand-alone and web-based tools to convert legacy PDB format files into PDBx/mmCIF format: pdb_extract http://pdb-extract.wwpdb.org/ and MAXIT http://sw-tools.rcsb.org/apps/MAXIT/index.html . More information on outputting and preparing PDBx/mmCIF format files for deposition can be found on the wwPDB website https://www.wwpdb.org/deposition/preparing-pdbx-mmcif-files . For more information, view the full news release at the wwPDB website https://www.wwpdb.org/news/news?year=2019#5d17c1ceea7d0653b99c87e2 or contact the wwPDB on [email protected] mailto:[email protected] . Regards John -- John Berrisford PDBe European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) European Molecular Biology Laboratory Wellcome Trust Genome Campus Hinxton Cambridge CB10 1SD UK Tel: +44 1223 492529 http://www.pdbe.org/ http://www.pdbe.org http://www.facebook.com/proteindatabank http://www.facebook.com/proteindatabank http://twitter.com/PDBeurope http://twitter.com/PDBeurope