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. The EMDB map distribution format follows the CCP4 definition, which is widely recognized by software packages used by the structural biology community.

Prefix

emdb

Keywords

epidemiology structural biology virology

Links

Homepage

Contact

Ardan Patwardhan   0000-0001-7663-9028

Identifier Space Owner

European Bioinformatics Institute

Pattern for Local Unique Identifiers

Local identifiers in Electron Microscopy Data Bank should match this regular expression:
^EMD-\d{4,5}$

Example Local Unique Identifier

EMD-1001   Resolve

Pattern for CURIES

Compact URIs (CURIEs) constructed from Electron Microscopy Data Bank should match this regular expression:
^emdb:EMD-\d{4,5}$

Example CURIE

emdb:EMD-1001

Publications

• 2015 EMDataBank unified data resource for 3DEM
• 2010 EMDataBank.org: unified data resource for CryoEM
• 2002 New electron microscopy database and deposition system
• New electron microscopy database and deposition system

A summary of the relations in the Bioregistry schema can be found here.

In Collection

Resources mentioned in "Sharing biological data: why, when, and how"

The metaregistry provides mappings between the Bioregistry and other registries. There are 7 mappings to external registries for this resource with 5 unique external prefixes.

A provider turns a local unique identifiers from a resource into a URI. Many providers are also resolvable as URLs (i.e., they can be used in a web browser).

The local unique identifier EMD-1001 is used to demonstrate the providers available for Electron Microscopy Data Bank. A guide for curating additional providers can be found here.