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PDB-Dev now PDB-IHM
01/16 
Integrative structures are available at wwPDB.org and the PDB archiveStructures of many large macromolecular assemblies are now being determined using integrative approaches, wherein information derived from multiple experimental and computational methods is combined to compute their three-dimensional structures. PDB-IHM (formerly PDB-Dev) is a system for archiving and disseminating structures determined using integrative or hybrid methods (IHM), and making them Findable, Accessible, Interoperable, and Reusable (FAIR).
In August 2024, PDB-Dev was unified with the PDB to deliver integrative structures alongside experimental structures in the PDB archive. With unification, integrative structures are assigned PDB accession codes and Digital Object Identifiers (DOIs), annotated as IHM structures, and can be accessed from the PDB archive, PDB DOI links (e.g., DOI: 10.2210/pdb8zzc/pdb), and the PDB-IHM website. Now part of the PDB infrastructure, PDB-Dev has been rebranded as PDB-IHM, denoting IHM structures archived in the PDB.
Integrative structures can be deposited through the PDB-IHM deposition portal and accessible from the wwPDB OneDep home page. They are processed in parallel to the wwPDB OneDep system. Structures processed by PDB-IHM are released synchronously with PDB structures weekly on Wednesdays at 00:00 UTC.
In the future, the wwPDB partners, including Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics Protein Data Bank (RCSB PDB) in the United States, Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe), and Protein Data Bank Japan (PDBj), will disseminate integrative structures on their respective websites.
We look forward to supporting the structural biology community with depositing integrative structures to PDB-IHM.
Questions or feedback? Contact deposit-help@mail.wwpdb.org or heldesk@pdb-ihm.org.
