title: EMDep: a web-based system for the deposition and validation of high-resolution electron microscopy macromolecular structural information.
abstract: This paper describes the design and implementation of a Web-based deposition system, EMDep, for macro-molecular volumes determined by electron microscopy and deposited at the European Bioinformatics Institute (EBI) for inclusion in the Electron Microscopy Data Base (EMDB). EMDep is a flexible and portable system (http://www.ebi.ac.uk/msd-srv/emdep/) that allows for the acceptance and validation of data, by an interactive depositor-driven operation. The system takes full advantage of the knowledge and expertise of the experimenters, rather than relying on the database curators, for the complete and accurate description of the structural experiment and its results.
authors.affiliation: EMBL Outstation, The European Bioinformatics Institute, Wellcome Trust Genome Campus, Hinxton, Cambridge CB10 1SD, UK. henrick@ebi.ac.uk
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Henrick
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Newman
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tagari
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Chagoyen
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D019992:Databases as Topic; D007091:Image Processing, Computer-Assisted / Q000379:methods*; D020407:Internet; D008854:Microscopy, Electron / Q000379:methods*; D012984:Software