The following lists a sample of Internet sites from which you can download PDB files
http://www.pdb.bnl.gov/cgi-bin/browse
The URL for a PDB file is:
http://www.pdb.bnl.gov/cgi-bin/get-pdb-entry?id=****&type=text&encoding=none
where **** is the 4-letter code.
The Brookhaven PDB anonymous ftp and gopher servers are at pdb.pdb.bnl.gov
ie. if accessed with a WWW browser the URLs are ftp://pdb.pdb.bnl.gov- the directory /current_release/ contains directories compressed_files/ and uncompressed_files/, each of which contains directories named after the 2nd and 3rd letters of the PDB files they contain- (as in EMBL site, see below);
and gopher://pdb.pdb.bnl.gov- the URL is currently of the form gopher://pdb.pdb.bnl.gov:70/11/PDB/Entries/.****
The Brookhaven PDB WWW home page is at http://www.pdb.bnl.gov
http://expasy.hcuge.ch/cgi-bin/get-pdb-entry?****
in directory /pub/databases/pdb/current/
Please read the text in this directory
(Access via WWW by clicking on ftp://ftp.embl-heidelberg.de/pub/databases/pdb/current/
The subdirectory compressed/ contains many sub-directories, all of which have 2-character names- they correspond to the 2nd and 3rd characters of the code of the PDB files they contain, e.g. 1abc would be stored in directory /pub/databases/pdb/current/compressed/ab/ The filenames are of the form pdb****.ent and can also be obtained in Unix-compressed format.
The EMBL WWW home page is at http://www.embl-heidelberg.de/
http://www.biochemtech.uni-halle.de/cgi-bin/send-text?filename=****