The command rsync can be used to obtain a local copy of the HSSP. We appreciate receiving an Email from people who do so, but there are no strings attached. Everybody can freely download the files, academia and industry alike.
To initially download the HSSP files use:
rsync -avz rsync://rsync.cmbi.umcn.nl/hssp/ /local_hssp_path/ |
And to make the occasional update, use
rsync -avz --delete rsync://rsync.cmbi.umcn.nl/hssp/ /local_hssp_path/ |
And, of course, do not type: /local_hssp_path/ but replace that by the path to an (existing) directory on your computer!
If your institute's firewall doesn't allow you to use the (preferred) rsync way of obtaining HSSP files, feel free to work with FTP. The files are in that case available from: ftp://ftp.cmbi.umcn.nl/pub/molbio/data/hssp/
You will need to get hacker-assistance to do updates with FTP without using too much bandwidth. So please don't download everything time-and-time again.
Please do these rsync (or FTP) jobs between midnight and 8.00 am Dutch time.