Group meetings, funding, new members and other news about the PCDDB
| 1 January 2020 | PCDDB Upgraded and successful server upgrade The PCDDB website gets updated with a new look and a number of new features. The PCDDB is also migrated to an upgraded server | |
| 18 November 2019 | ELIXIR Biohackathon 2019 Sergio Gomes Ramalli attends the 2019 Biohackathon in paris, with the objective of improving the interoperability of the core intrinsically disordered protein (IDP) resources | ELIXIR Biohackathon |
| 1 September 2018 | Sergio Gomes Ramalli joins the PCDDB team Sergio Gomes Ramalli joins the PCDDB team as lead developer and a research assistant | Website |
| 31 May 2018 | Farewell Dr Lee Dr. Lee Whitmore, the developer of the PCDDB and the DichroWeb server, who has worked with the Wallace/Janes groups on tools for CD spectroscopy for the past 15 years, has left Birkbeck and the project on 31 May 2018. He has not only provided advice and information to users online but has also been a major participant/lecturer in CD meetings and workshops in the UK and around the world, and at the SRCD meetings in Beijing (2009) and Germany (2015), where many users will have met him. We wish him all the best in his future endeavours. | |
| 01 January 2018 | BBSRC renews funding for the PCDDB The Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council of the United Kingdom has renewed the funding of the PCDDB with a 5 year award via the research initiative: Bioinformatics and Biological Resources Fund. | BBSRC |
| 12 July 2017 | EU/UK Circular Dichroism User Group Meeting. Dr Whitmore leads the PCDDB/DichroWeb Users Forum at the EU/UK Circular Dichroism User Group Meeting at The University of Warwick, UK. | Website |
Accession codes updated.
After consultation with our International Scientific Advisory Board, we changed our accession numbering system on 1 March 2011. The searching facility will alias any old PCDDBid codes to their new counterparts and we give a complete look-up table here.
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