Phase Out of BNL FTP Archive

Since 1999, the Research Collaboratory for Structural Bioinformatics (RCSB) has maintained two distinct FTP sites: the RCSB Protein Data Bank (PDB) site at ftp://ftp.rcsb.org/ (and its mirrors; see http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/mirrors.html), and the Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) PDB site at ftp://bnlarchive.rcsb.org.

In order to conserve resources and avoid confusion arising through the existence of two distinct PDB FTP sites, the RCSB will phase out the BNL PDB archive as of March 1, 2002, as announced on October 19, 2001 (http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/lists/pdb-l/200110/msg00024.html). This decision was made after consultation with the PDB Advisory Committee and review by members of the PDB user community.

The files available at ftp://bnlarchive.rcsb.org/pub/resources/index/ are now available at ftp://ftp.rcsb.org/pub/pdb/derived_data/index/.

Current users of the BNL PDB archive are encouraged to consider the option of mirroring the RCSB FTP archive. The RCSB FTP archive can be found at ftp://ftp.rcsb.org and instructions for mirroring it can be found at http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/ftpproc.final.html.

A Perl script is provided to assist with conversion of existing BNL FTP directory structure to the RCSB FTP directory structure. Further information about the script is available at ftp://ftp.rcsb.org/pub/pdb/software/bnl2rcsb.pl.

Please send your questions or concerns, or requests for assistance regarding this change, to info@rcsb.org.