The replacement of the EDS might be an excellent opportunity to upgrade/include the newer EDSTATS metrics and make these raw data also downloadable/parse-able for analysis purposes (xml). A server option where you can send in your own PDB files (included in the validation server?) before submission might be useful (the current ccp4 implementation of EDSTATS fails to convince)...the effect of the deterrence experiencing public maps/stats looking as bad as the ones dreamt up at home might enhance deposition quality.
Best, BR -----Original Message----- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gerard DVD Kleywegt Sent: Tuesday, December 13, 2016 9:52 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [ccp4bb] Message from the Uppsala EDS: "Morituri te salutant" Hi all, After tirelessly serving the scientific community with (mostly) beautiful maps for two decades, the Uppsala Electron Density Server (EDS; http://eds.bmc.uu.se/) is now reaching the end of its life (in fact, it has been living on borrowed time for several years already). Some time in 2017 it will therefore be "phased" out and join the choir invisible (despite its beautiful plumage). The good news is that much of the EDS functionality (and in particular the delivery of map and mtz files, as well as a much better 3D viewer) is now provided by the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe; http://pdbe.org/). There is a short write-up that explains what this means for users who just want to look at maps, for users who want to download files, for users of software that retrieves data from EDS, and for developers of such software (incl. URLs for map, mtz and other relevant files on the PDBe website) at: http://www.ebi.ac.uk/pdbe/eds Toodle pip! --Gerard ****************************************************************** Gerard J. Kleywegt http://xray.bmc.uu.se/gerard mailto:[email protected] ****************************************************************** The opinions in this message are fictional. Any similarity to actual opinions, living or dead, is purely coincidental. ****************************************************************** Little known gastromathematical curiosity: let "z" be the radius and "a" the thickness of a pizza. Then the volume of that pizza is equal to pi*z*z*a ! ******************************************************************
