News
Improving Download Services
03/22
Website/HTTP access to PDB data files is improving as RCSB PDB moves to a scalable, cloud-based service that will better support our growing user community. Access to this service via http://files.rcsb.org is not rate-limited or throttled for heavy users, and programmatic usage is encouraged.
This method is being used to deliver PDB entry data files (PDB and PDBx/mmCIF formats) from the Download Tool and from Structure Summary pages (Display and Download options). Data are returned faster and more reliably.
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Simplified URLs point to compressed and uncompressed files to better enable use of PDB data in software applications:
Action | Example URLs (action/content is in bold) |
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Directly display PDB entries in PDB or PDBx/mmCIF format in a web browser | http://files.rcsb.org/view/1stp.pdb http://files.rcsb.org/view/1stp.cif |
Download data files (uncompressed or compressed) | http://files.rcsb.org/download/1stp.pdb http://files.rcsb.org/download/1stp.cif http://files.rcsb.org/download/1stp.pdb.gz http://files.rcsb.org/download/1stp.cif.gz |
Access an entry's non-coordinate information (authorship, citation, database references, etc.) | http://files.rcsb.org/header/1stp.pdb http://files.rcsb.org/header/1stp.cif |