Dear colleagues, This is for those of you with an interest in cryo-EM/ET and related archives. --- We are writing to you about some changes to the EMDB and EMPIAR URLs and the EMDB website. As of today, EMDB and EMPIAR have their own EMBL-EBI top-level URL at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/emdb and https://www.ebi.ac.uk/empiar, respectively. We will continue to operate the old websites for another week or two and then shut these down. At that stage we will put (best-effort) redirects in place to the new websites so as to minimise disruption for our users. We would appreciate it if you could update any bookmarks or links you may have to these resources. More information about the changes and how some important URLs (e.g., for EMDB and EMPIAR entry pages) have changed can be found at https://www.ebi.ac.uk/emdb/move Perhaps somewhat burying the lead, EMDB also launched a completely new website today with much improved look-and-feel, more and better functionality, vastly improved search system and entry pages that now provide (access to) much more (meta)data than before, etc. We have listened closely to the over 100 survey participants who provided abundant and detailed input about what they liked about the old website, what they didn't like and what functionality they wanted to see on the new EMDB website. We have been able to implement the vast majority of their suggestions and have received further valuable feedback during various user-experience-testing trials. Thanks to everybody in the community who contributed! Please steer your browser to https://www.ebi.ac.uk/emdb to check it out! Over the next few days we will be releasing short videos to highlight various features (homepage, basic search, entry pages and advanced search). These will be available via the new homepage and also be advertised on our Twitter account, @EMDB_EMIAR If you have any questions (or want to report any issues, or have any other feedback) regarding these changes, please contact the EMDB helpdesk (emdbhelp@ebi.ac.uk) or the EMPIAR helpdesk (empiarhelp@ebi.ac.uk). --The EMDB and EMPIAR teams at EMBL-EBI --- Gerard J. Kleywegt, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK Head of Molecular and Cellular Structure gerard@ebi.ac.uk pdbe.org emdb-empiar.org PA: Roisin Dunlop pdbe_admin@ebi.ac.uk