Accessing structural data programmatically with PDBe

This webinar series will guide participants through accessing structural data programmatically with the Protein Data Bank in Europe (PDBe). The series also includes a final session on the AlphaFold Database (AFDB). 

The first five webinars will focus on different levels of programmatic access at PDBe,  ranging from basic data retrieval and search using the PDBe API to more advanced features, such as building more complex API queries. It will also include a walkthrough of the different repositories for PDBe tools available on GitHub. The sixth and last webinar will introduce programmatic access to the AFDB.

The webinars making up this series are listed below. Follow the links to find out more about each webinar. You will need to register for each webinar you would like to attend. Recordings will be made openly available for all webinars on their individual pages.

Webinars

Who is this series for?

This series is suitable for PhD students, bioinformaticians, and more generally, users interested in accessing the data in bulk rather than individual entries. Prior experience of working with the PDBe would be desirable. Basic knowledge of the Python programming language is again desirable, but not essential.

Outcomes

By the end of this webinar series, you will be able to:

• Access PDBe data programmatically
• Search the PDBe database using APIs
• Build and refine queries to retrieve data of interest
• Use PDBe’s publicly available repositories on GitHub
• Access AFDB data programmatically

Speakers

This webinar series will run from 6 May to 17 June 2026. Webinars are free to attend but registration is essential: for all details and registration link, follow the links to the individual webinar pages. 

All webinars will be recorded, and the recording will be made available on given the webinar page. Please note that we do not issue certificates of attendance for our webinars. However, you will receive an email from our Zoom account confirming your participation a day after the event.