Opened 6 years ago

Last modified 5 years ago

#3173 closed defect

BLAST PDB web services being removed November 2020 — at Version 1

Reported by: Tom Goddard Owned by: Eric Pettersen
Priority: major Milestone: 1.2
Component: Sequence Version:
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Notify when closed: Platform: all
Project: ChimeraX

Description (last modified by Tom Goddard)

The PDB announced that legacy PDB web services will be discontinued November 2020, including ones used by the ChimeraX Blast PDB tool.

Searching for /pdb/rest in ChimeraX code gives

bundles/blastprotein/src/pdbinfo.py320: url = '​https://www.rcsb.org/pdb/rest/%s?structureId=%s' % (query, ids)

Change History (1)

comment:1 by Tom Goddard, 6 years ago

Description: modified (diff)

Announcement from PDB:

Subject: Deprecation of RCSB PDB legacy APIs
Date: Fri, 8 May 2020 12:17:21 -0700
From: Jose Duarte <jose.duarte@…>
To: Roland Dunbrack <roland.dunbrack@…>, Andrej Sali <sali@…>, Torsten Schwede <torsten.schwede@…>, tef@…, PDAdams@…
CC: Stephen Burley <stephen.burley@…>, Christine Zardecki <christine.zardecki@…>, Rachel Green <rachel.green@…>

Dear advisors, dear Andrej

This week we have announced that our legacy APIs are going to be discontinued in November 2020, see:

​http://www.rcsb.org/news?year=2020&article=5eb18ccfd62245129947212a&feature=true

The APIs have been around for a long time and we understand that there are many programmatic users that will need to adapt.

We are trying to send notifications as wide as possible and we are planning to send messages to CCP4 and to other lists. If you can think of anyone that we should notify specifically, we would appreciate your feedback. Of course, feel free to also spread the news among your teams and colleagues.

Many thanks and best regards

Jose

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Jose Duarte
RCSB Protein Data Bank
SDSC, UC San Diego

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