Re: [Jmol-users] access to raw PDB entry data?

[Albion B. <ba...@bi...>]

On Tue, 25 Jan 2005, timothy driscoll wrote:

> I did not realize that one can access the PDB through its ftp site
> still. That looks like what I need to do.

Yah, this is pretty simple. Fetching the files to a local temp directory,
parsing, and cleaning up is a piece of cake, and all done with a simple
shell script (Perl, csh, sh, etc). Just watch that you don't create a
security hole with your cgi-script. I am not on top of this, but evidently
it is easy to create scripts that can compromise a webserver. The
privilages of the user the script runs under is key here ...

The use of cron jobs under Unix can automate the cleanup of a temp
directory after things have been fetched and parsed.

Good luck.

Albion

Albion E. Baucom
http://rna.ucsc.edu/albion