The PubChem BioAssay FTP updated

To expedite the download speed for growing number of assays in the PubChem Bioassays FTP site, we have introduced several changes that may impact all of the BioAssay FTP users. Data and description files are now partitioned and compressed as "zip" format. Each compressed zip file contains a directory with a list of BioAssay files according to the range of AID(BioAssay ID), the directory named as the AID range, and each individual data filename prefixed by the AID. For example, the file "0000001_0001000.zip" contains the compressed zip archive directory which contains individual Bioassay files. Each Bioassay file contains an AID record within the range of 1 through 1,000. The files were partitioned according to a fixed AID range of 1000. The zip file format has been natively supported on Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, Unix and other systems. There are also a number of ZIP tools and libraries available and free for your programming environments.
Source: PubChem News - Category: Chemistry Authors: Source Type: news