[3dem] Reduced PDBe services between 23 December and 10 January

[Gerard DVD Kleywegt]

Hi all,

This is to inform PDB/EMDB depositors (at PDBe only) and users of PDBe services 
(http://pdbe.org/) that we will be operating with a reduced level of service in 
the next few weeks:

- on 23 and 24 December we are operating with a skeleton crew, especially in 
the depositon and annotation department. We will do our best to process entries 
that are deposited during these days but cannot guarantee that we will succeed 
in all cases.

- from 25 December to 3 January (inclusive), the EBI will be closed. You may 
still deposit structures and data into the PDB and EMDB, but there will be no 
annotation and processing taking place. We will monitor our web services in 
this period and will endeavour to fix any serious problems. Please note that 
e-mail sent to PDBe in this period is unlikely to receive a reply until the 
beginning of January.

- from 4-6 January, we will resume normal service and catch up with the 
annotation and e-mail backlogs.

- from 7-10 January, the entire campus data centre will be shut down for urgent 
repairs and service. This means that it will not be possible to deposit any PDB 
or EMDB data at PDBe in this period and that most of the PDBe web site and 
services will not be operational. (However, ftp services should not be affected 
by this as they don't reside on campus.)

- from 11 January, we hope to be fully operational again (like the Death Star 
in "Return of the Jedi").

We apologise for any inconvenience these service interruptions/reductions may 
cause.

On behalf of all PDBe staff: best wishes for the coming holiday season!

--Gerard Kleywegt

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Gerard J. Kleywegt, PDBe, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK
gerard at ebi.ac.uk ..................... pdbe.org
Secretary: Pauline Haslam  pdbe_admin at ebi.ac.uk