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New wwPDB X-ray structure validation reports support depositors, journal editors and referees. The wwPDB partners are pleased to announce that new X-ray structure validation reports are now being provided to depositors as part of the structure annotation process. The reports can be used by depositors to assess the quality of their structures, and by journal editors and referees as a useful tool in the manuscript-review process.
"Validation 'at the gate' is crucial to improving the quality and consistency of the structural archive," said Gerard Kleywegt, Head of PDBe. "The new wwPDB validation reports for X-ray crystal structures draw on a wealth of community experience in the validation of models, experimental data and the fit of the model to these data."
Provision of wwPDB validation reports is already required by the International Union of Crystallography (IUCr) journals as part of their submission process, and the wwPDB partners hope that the launch of the new improved reports will encourage other journals to follow suit.
The new X-ray structure validation reports have been prepared according to the recommendations of the wwPDB X-ray Validation Task Force and provide an assessment of structure quality using widely accepted standards and criteria. Crucially, the new reports also provide an easily interpretable graphic that compares the quality of a structure to that of other structures in the PDB archive and to structures of similar resolution.
Further information, including sample X-ray validation reports, is available at http://www.wwpdb.org/validation.html
The wwPDB partners would welcome your feedback on the new style validation reports. Please send any comments, questions or suggestions to [email protected]
