Repository details

Electron Microscopy Data Bank

Name of repository
Electron Microscopy Data Bank
Additional name(s)
  • EMDB
  • The Electron Microscopy Data Bank at Protein Data Bank in Europe
  • EMDB at PDBe
Repository URL
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/emdb/
Subject(s)
Description
The Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB) is a public repository for electron microscopy density maps of macromolecular complexes and subcellular structures. It covers a variety of techniques, including single-particle analysis, electron tomography, and electron (2D) crystallography.
Contact(s)
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
Repository size
40.902 entries
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/emdb/about
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • dataProvider
  • serviceProvider

Institutions (4)

Institution
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Protein Data Bank in Europe
Additional name(s)
  • EMBL-EBI
  • PDBe
Country
European Union
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
National Institutes of Health
Additional name(s)
  • NIH
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Data Bank
Additional name(s)
  • RCSB PDB
Country
United Kingdom
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution
Rutgers
Additional name(s)
  • The State University of New Jersey
Institution
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • technical
Type of institution
non-profit

Policies (1)

Policy Name
wwPDB agreement

Database access

Type of access to research data repository
open

Data access (1)

Type of access to data
open

Data licenses (2)

DataLicense
other
DataLicense
Public Domain

Data upload (1)

Type of data upload
restricted
Data upload restriction type(s)
  • registration

Data upload license (2)

Data upload license name
wwPDB OneDep System
Data upload license name
deposition guide
Persistent identifier system(s)
  • none
Name of the repository software
  • unknown
Versioning
yes
Author identifier system(s)
  • ORCID
Enhanced Publication
yes
Quality management
yes

Application programming interfaces (3)

Type
FTP
Url
ftp://ftp.ebi.ac.uk/pub/databases/emdb
Type
REST
Url
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/api/doc/emdb.html
Type
REST
Url
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/emdb/api/

Metadata standards (1)

Metadata standard
Repository-Developed Metadata Schemas

Alerting services (1)

Type of alerting service
RSS

Remarks

Remarks
EMDB is covered by Thomson Reuters Data Citation Index. The EMDB was founded at EBI in 2002, under the leadership of Kim Henrick. Since 2007 it has been operated jointly by the PDBe, and the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB PDB) as a part of EMDataBank. PDBe is a member of wwPDB (worldwide protein data bank) and EMDataBank. EMDB is part of the ELIXIR infrastructure
Entry date
2013-12-04
Last update
2024-12-13
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re3data.org: Electron Microscopy Data Bank; editing status 2024-12-13; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3HP57 last accessed: 2025-05-12