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Table 2 Remote access to the server

From: Multiple structure alignment and consensus identification for proteins

import urllib2

url = "http://www.geom-comp.umn.edu/mapsci/align.cgi?wsget=pdb&rcsb=1sfp+1spp:A+1spp:B"

server = urllib2.urlopen(url)

output = file("alignment.zip", 'wb')

output.write(server.read())

output.close()

server.close()

  1. An example of using the programming language Python to retrieve the transformed coordinates (in PDB format) for the multiple alignment of the structures from the HOMSTRAD CUB family. Additional examples and the complete set of options for remote access can be found at the server web page (see the Availability section).