GET

# example of a GET query...
data = p.PDB.getSummary(pdbid='1cbs')
print(data)

{
    "2pah": [
        {
            "related_structures": [],
            "split_entry": [],
            "title": "TETRAMERIC HUMAN PHENYLALANINE HYDROXYLASE",
            "release_date": "19991006",
            "experimental_method": [
                "X-ray diffraction"
            ],
            "experimental_method_class": [
                "x-ray"
            ],
            "revision_date": "20110713",
            "entry_authors": [
                "Stevens, R.C.",
                "Fusetti, F.",
                "Erlandsen, H."
            ],
            "deposition_site": "BNL",
            "number_of_entities": {
                "polypeptide": 1,
                "dna": 0,
                "ligand": 1,
                "dna/rna": 0,
                "rna": 0,
                "sugar": 0,
                "water": 0,
                "other": 0
            },
            "processing_site": "RCSB",
            "deposition_date": "19980526",
            "assemblies": [
                {
                    "assembly_id": "1",
                    "form": "homo",
                    "preferred": true,
                    "name": "tetramer"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

POST

Not all endpoints enable post requests. Those will raise a NotImplementedError() exception.

# an example POST query...
# up to 1000 pdb ids can be queried with post methods
data = p.PDB.getSummary(pdbid='1cbs, 2pah', method='POST')
print(data)

{
    "1cbs": [
        {
            "related_structures": [],
            "split_entry": [],
            "title": "CRYSTAL STRUCTURE OF CELLULAR RETINOIC-ACID-BINDING PROTEINS I AND II IN COMPLEX WITH ALL-TRANS-RETINOIC ACID AND A SYNTHETIC RETINOID",
            "release_date": "19950126",
            "experimental_method": [
                "X-ray diffraction"
            ],
            "experimental_method_class": [
                "x-ray"
            ],
            "revision_date": "20090224",
            "entry_authors": [
                "Kleywegt, G.J.",
                "Bergfors, T.",
                "Jones, T.A."
            ],
            "deposition_site": null,
            "number_of_entities": {
                "polypeptide": 1,
                "dna": 0,
                "ligand": 1,
                "dna/rna": 0,
                "rna": 0,
                "sugar": 0,
                "water": 1,
                "other": 0
            },
            "processing_site": null,
            "deposition_date": "19940928",
            "assemblies": [
                {
                    "assembly_id": "1",
                    "form": "homo",
                    "preferred": true,
                    "name": "monomer"
                }
            ]
        }
    ],
    "2pah": [
        {
            "related_structures": [],
            "split_entry": [],
            "title": "TETRAMERIC HUMAN PHENYLALANINE HYDROXYLASE",
            "release_date": "19991006",
            "experimental_method": [
                "X-ray diffraction"
            ],
            "experimental_method_class": [
                "x-ray"
            ],
            "revision_date": "20110713",
            "entry_authors": [
                "Stevens, R.C.",
                "Fusetti, F.",
                "Erlandsen, H."
            ],
            "deposition_site": "BNL",
            "number_of_entities": {
                "polypeptide": 1,
                "dna": 0,
                "ligand": 1,
                "dna/rna": 0,
                "rna": 0,
                "sugar": 0,
                "water": 0,
                "other": 0
            },
            "processing_site": "RCSB",
            "deposition_date": "19980526",
            "assemblies": [
                {
                    "assembly_id": "1",
                    "form": "homo",
                    "preferred": true,
                    "name": "tetramer"
                }
            ]
        }
    ]
}

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