We write to let you know about a new section of our feature Multimedia in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology - Proteopedia. We are very excited about this new addition. It comes from our longtime goal of having Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education (BAMBED) support the aim of visual literacy and structural biology education. We have long been interested in finding ways of publishing and/or publicizing interactive materials involving the visual manipulation of images. Printed journals are limited to still illustrations, but various web-based programs allow this interactivity and there is much interest in creating such materials as well as using them. Just one example is www.molviz.org, maintained by Eric Martz, which contains educational macromolecular visualization tutorials and resources. Proteopedia is a free, web-based (http://www.proteopedia.org/), collaborative encyclopedia (wiki) of proteins and other molecules that uses Jmol for 3-dimensional visualization. It is an educational tool of immense potential value to biochemists and molecular biologists. Proteopedia pages that review a specific topic are particularly useful. The currently featured article on the Proteopedia's main page is The Ribosome, reviewed by Wayne Decatur, winner of the first annual Proteopedia Page of the Year Competition. A difficulty with web-based multimedia materials has been providing recognition to authors of such materials so that they can be used as part of the author's curriculum vitae and be evaluated for professional advancement. In addition, it is difficult to find ways of communicating to the rest of the community that these materials are available and are worthwhile to use. Publication in a peer-reviewed journal such as BAMBED would provide both recognition and communication. It is our hope that our publication of abstracts of Proteopedia pages will go some way toward solving these recognition and communication problems. Our peer-reviewed feature in this month's issue of BAMBED, after an introduction to Proteopedia by its founders, Eran Hodis, Jaime Prilusky, and Joel L. Sussman, is on the Large Ribosomal Subunit of Haloarcula marismortui, contributed by Wayne Decatur. Authors of other Proteopedia pages are invited to submit abstracts describing their content to BAMBED. The abstract and its associated Proteopedia page will be peer-reviewed by members of the BAMBED editorial board. The Proteopedia page will still be editable as a wiki but the content evaluated by the referees will be “frozen” at the time of refereeing and specifically linked to the abstract's web-page at www.bambed.org. Accepted abstracts, along with their link to Proteopedia, will be published in our new Proteopedia section of Multimedia in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Education. * * * * * In addition to our wonderful new collaboration with Proteopedia, we would like to bring to your attention another exciting piece of news. As you may know, the first journal published by the International Union of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology was Biochemical Education, the parent of BAMBED. Now, at long last, all of the Biochemical Education archive, from 1972 through 2000, when it became BAMBED, has been published and made freely available on the Wiley Online Library BAMBED website, www.bambed.org, in searchable form (as are all issues of BAMBED after a two-year hold). For this we owe an enormous debt of gratitude to Willy Stalmans, the Chair of the IUBMB Publication Committee, and Angelo Azzi, the President of IUBMB, who both worked tirelessly to make this happen, and to Colette Bean and her colleagues at John Wiley & Sons for their excellent execution of the project.