Meet AlphaFoldDB Structure Extractor: Your Gateway to Protein Structures
Researchers can now easily download predicted protein structures from the AlphaFold Database thanks to the new AlphaFoldDB Structure Extractor. This open-access web server and API toolkit lets you grab protein structures in bulk using familiar identifiers like NCBI Taxonomy ID, RefSeq, locus tags, and UniProt or AlphaFold accessions. No more being restricted to a limited list of model organisms or small structure sets—this tool has your whole lab covered!
Flexible, Fast, and Researcher-Friendly
With the AlphaFoldDB Structure Extractor, you can download protein structure files in formats like PDB, mmCIF, bCIF, or PAE JSON. The tool even creates a handy mapping file so you can trace your identifiers back to standard accession numbers—no more getting lost in translation. Got a huge list of proteins? No problem! The server handles up to 5000 accessions at a time and reports any unmapped IDs separately. If you only need to map IDs, you can do that too without downloading coordinates.
Plus, coding wizards can use the provided API to integrate structure downloads directly into their bioinformatics pipelines. AlphaFoldDB Structure Extractor makes structural and functional genomics research way more accessible—even if you’re not a computational expert. As they say, why break a sweat over manual downloads when you can let a smart tool do the heavy lifting? Time to retire those endless copy-paste marathons!