In article <1991Dec6.160405.1094 at mailer.cc.fsu.edu> sloderb at mailer.cc.fsu.edu (Mike Sloderbeck) writes:
>In article <9112012225.AA15988 at genbank.bio.net> DANJ at JHUHYG.bitnet (Dan Jacobson) writes:
>>future. Until then the following is a description of the PDB as available from
>>NETSERV at EMBL.>>I think this is great news, BUT
>I think we need an ftp site on the North American side
>of what I presume is a very expensive and somewhat slow(?) data link.
>
I complained about and to Brookhaven a year or more ago about the need
for U.S. public access to PDB data. They are a US government funded
group. They continue to treat this data as limited access. It probably
has something to do with patents or copyrights held by the investigators
who determine the protein structures (shades of things to come with
nucleotide data?).
Brookhaven has an FTP site at Brookhaven (anonymous ftp to
irisc2.chm.bnl.gov, or IP # 130.199.129.8), but only make indices and
tape order info available here. Your letters and comments to them may
be the onlyway to get them to open it up:
Brookhaven National Lab
Protein Data Bank
Chemistry Dept. Bldg 555
Upton, NY 11973 USA
Phone: 516.282.3629
Fax: 516.282.5815
Email: skora at pb1.chm.bnl.gov or PDB at BNLCHM.Bitnet
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Don Gilbert gilbert at bio.indiana.edu
biocomputing office, biology dept., indiana univ., bloomington, in 47405
