PDB Database Access

Note: This skill uses the RCSB PDB web API directly. No Modal deployment needed - all operations run locally via HTTP requests.

Fetching Structures

By PDB ID

# Download PDB file
curl -o 1alu.pdb "https://files.rcsb.org/download/1ALU.pdb"

# Download mmCIF
curl -o 1alu.cif "https://files.rcsb.org/download/1ALU.cif"

Using Python

from Bio.PDB import PDBList