The BioInformer nr. The EBI Macromolecular Structure Database is the European project for the collection, management and distribution of data about the three dimensional structure of macromolecules. The goals of the EBI-MSD are to provide high quality services for the deposition, organisation, integration and search of data about three dimensional structures.
Work is in progress in all three areas and some highlights are summarised in the following sections.
517 Submissions to PDB at EBI in 1999 EBI-MSD started accepting depositions to the Protein Data Bank at the beginning of January 1998. Since then, over 1,000 structures have been deposited at EBI using the AutoDep deposition system. Until 15th June 1999 all structures submitted at EBI were forwarded to the USA for further processing and follow-up with authors. Since 15th June, in order to provide a faster and more complete service at EBI, structures submitted at EBI have had all follow-up done by EBI staff. A PDB ID code is issued by EBI as soon as the deposition with AutoDep is finished.