Get Pdb Files Through Application

Question

[Reyhaneh]

I am trying to access the content of PDB files of a protein using their PDBIds. I am using this service in a my application that i'm developing (using c# language).

What I do at the moment is to use the url below: http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/download/downloadFile.do?fileFormat=pdb&compression=NO&structureId=XXXX (where XXXX stands for the pdb code)

but this way is slow and I need to download the file, while i want to be able to access the content without the need of downloading.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks;

Answer 1

[Istvan Albert]

1. Save the file to the local filesystem so you only need to download it once
2. Download all PDBs and distribute them with your application

Answer 2

[Woa]

How about using the FTP service which may be a little faster.There is a perl script available from PDB for this purpose

ftp://snapshots.wwpdb.org/20050106/pub/pdb/software/getPdbStructures.html ftp://snapshots.wwpdb.org/20050106/pub/pdb/software/getPdbStructures.pl

Note that this script will NOT work as the FTP location has now changed. You can choose the latest download location from here: http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/static.do?p=download/ftp/index.html