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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jul 31.
Published in final edited form as: FEBS Lett. 2021 Apr;595(7):847–863. doi: 10.1002/1873-3468.14067

Table 4:

Structural biology repositories.

Repository Purpose Substrate Maximum size Formats
PDB Atomic coordinates and ensembles Subcellular structures Tens of MB PDB, mmCIF
EMDB 3D reconstructions from processed EM data Subcellular structure GB MRC, CCP4
EMPIAR Electron microscopy raw and processed image data Subcellular structures (single-particle cryo-EM, cryo-ET) Tens of TB TIFF, HDF5, MRC, MRCS, DM4, EER, IMAGIC, SPIDER, SCIPION, EMDB-SFF, AMIRA, STL, VTK, VTP, OBJ, AVI, JPEG, PNG, EMX, BLENDER, TXT
IRRMC X-ray diffraction raw data Subcellular structures Hundreds of MB Raw diffraction data formats
BMRB NMR raw data Subcellular structures GB CCPN, mmCIF, PDB, NMR-STAR, X-PLOR