Web Services Overview

Programmatic access to individual structures and/or specific data items (e.g., bound ligands) is provided through REpresentational State Transfer (or RESTful) Web Service Application Program Interfaces (APIs).

APIs to access select information about Chemical components, BIRD entries, Structure pages, metadata, and drugs
Search APIs to return a list of IDs (e.g., PDB IDs, chain IDs, ligand IDs)
Fetch APIs to return data given an ID (e.g. reports, descriptions, data items)

New Web Service APIs are being developed; users should register with the RCSB PDB API electronic list for announcements.

Contact RCSB PDB with questions suggestions for specific services.

RCSB PDB is funded by the National Science Foundation (DBI-1832184), the US Department of Energy (DE-SC0019749), and the National Cancer Institute, National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, and National Institute of General Medical Sciences of the National Institutes of Health under grant R01GM133198.