Improve Your Coordinates, Keep Your ID (Phase II)

02/18

wwPDB is pleased to announce that authors (PIs) of released PDB structures can update the model coordinates while retaining the same PDB accession code, thereby preserving the link with the original publication. In this second and final phase of the project, versioning functionality has been extended from structures deposited using the OneDep system to all entries (previously).

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