[3dem] EMDB-10k and EMPIAR re-use case study

[Gerard DVD Kleywegt]

Hi all,

As many of you will have noticed, last week EMDB reached the milestone of 
10,000 released entries. To celebrate this we have produced a poster that you 
can download here: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/emdb/emdb_10000.html It will 
also be distributed at several cryo-EM meetings this year, so keep an eye out 
for it.

On the occasion of EMDB-10k, Nature published a news article yesterday: 
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-00341-9

The companion archive EMPIAR, where you can deposit the raw data underpinning 
your EMDB structures, is also growing (although the milestone we're looking 
forward to there is a "mere" 1,000 entries, or one petabyte, whichever comes 
first!). We have looked into the re-use of one particular dataset, the (at the 
time) 2.2Å beta-galactosidase data from Sriram Subramaniam's lab 
(EMPIAR-10061). Although the number of published re-uses is modest, each and 
every one of them is significant as they contributed to methods development. 
In addition, we are aware that many of you have re-solved the structure using 
this EMPIAR dataset. If you know of additional re-uses, perhaps unpublished, 
we would love to hear from you!

You can read the case study here: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/emdb/empiar/reuse

The rapid growth of both EMDB and EMPIAR shows the maturity of the cryo-EM 
field and its community, and we would like to thank you all for depositing 
your raw and processed data (and your models, of course)!

(For stats and plots regarding the growth of these two archives, see: 
https://emdb-empiar.org/emstats )


--Gerard, Ardan and the EMDB and EMPIAR teams

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Gerard J. Kleywegt, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK
Head of Molecular and  Cellular Structure
gerard at ebi.ac.uk pdbe.org emdb-empiar.org
PA: Roisin Dunlop    pdbe_admin at ebi.ac.uk