The Electron Microscopy Data Bank (EMDB) is a public repository for cryogenic-sample Electron Microscopy (cryoEM) volumes and representative tomograms of macromolecular complexes and subcellular structures. It covers a variety of techniques, including single-particle analysis, helical reconstruction, electron tomography, subtomogram averaging, and electron crystallography. More...

As of 28 January 2026, EMDB contains 53722 entries (latest entries, trends).

EMDB News

  • The EMDB and wwPDB have reached a historic milestone, releasing 10,000 EMDB entries in a single year!

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  • Q-score as a reliability measure for protein, nucleic acid and small-molecule atomic coordinate models derived from 3DEM maps

    Grigore Pintilie, Chenghua Shao, Zhe Wang, Brian P Hudson, Justin W Flatt, Michael F Schmid, Kyle L Morris, Stephen K Burley, Wah Chiu. (2025) Acta Cryst D81: 410-422 doi: 10.1107/S2059798325005923

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  • A total of 2,540 respondants took the time to fill in this EMBL-EBI survey. We will learn how EMDB and other services like EMPIAR and PDB help you and this will help EMBL-EBI make the case for why open data resources are critical to life science research. Thank you for the incredible number of responses.

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