Repository details

The Electron Microscopy Data Bank

Name of repository
The 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
Content type(s)
Keyword(s)
Persistent identifier(s) of the repository
  • RRID:nlx_149453
  • RRID:SCR_006506
  • MIR:00100738
  • FAIRsharing_doi:10.25504/FAIRsharing.651n9j
Repository size
16.455 entries
Repository type(s)
  • disciplinary
Mission statement for designated community
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/emdb/index.html/
Research data repository language(s)
  • English
Data and/or service provider
  • data provider
  • service provider
Institution name
European Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute, Protein Data Bank in Europe
Additional name(s)
  • PDBe
  • EMBL-EBI
Contact(s)
Country
European Union
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
National Center for Macromolecular Imaging
Additional name(s)
  • NCMI
Contact(s)
  • gregp@slac.stanford.edu
  • wahc@stanford.edu
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
National Institutes of Health
Additional name(s)
  • NIH
Identifier(s)
  • ROR:01cwqze88
Contact(s)
Country
United States
Type(s) of responsibility
  • funding
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics, Protein Data Bank
Additional name(s)
  • RCSB PDB
Contact(s)
Country
United Kingdom
Type(s) of responsibility
  • general
Type of institution
non-profit
Institution name
Rutgers
Additional name(s)
  • The State University of New Jersey
Identifier(s)
  • ROR:05vt9qd57
Contact(s)
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)

API type
FTP
API type
REST
API type
REST

Metadata standards (1)

Metadata standard name
Repository-Developed Metadata Schemas
Metadata standard scheme
DCC

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
2021-09-07
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re3data.org: The Electron Microscopy Data Bank; editing status 2021-09-07; re3data.org - Registry of Research Data Repositories. http://doi.org/10.17616/R3HP57 last accessed: 2023-06-03