Hold your horsemen! Does not this option save us from 'formatagedon'? We currently only have single letters or numbers for chains. But we could easily agree to switch to double letters. And long chains can be a sequence of letter number permutations such as A1, A2, A3 etc (actually I notice single numbers are allowed for the PDB - although are deprecated until all the letters have been used). We could allow the first character to be a number as well - so 11 12 13 as a valid sequence.for a single polymer. Conversely we could expand the atom identifier to include letters as is the case with most computing identifiers - however not many programs seem to pay attention to the atom 'numbers' in any case.
Cheers Martyn Martyn Symmons (not Winn) Cambridge ________________________________ From: Dirk Kostrewa <kostr...@genzentrum.lmu.de> To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Sent: Friday, 30 August 2013, 15:36 Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] Fractional coordinate shift with two-character chain names? Hi Martyn, excellent - this worked! Many thanks! Cheers, Dirk. Am 30.08.13 16:04, schrieb Martyn Winn: > IIRC the CCP4 library (i.e. mmdb) can handle 2-character chain names. There > may be something specific in pdbset which interferes. You can try pdbcur as > an alternative. Something like: > > pdbcur xyzin toxd_AA.pdb xyzout toxd_out.pdb <<eof > translate * frac 0 0.2 0 > end > eof > > I just tried it on a little example, and it works for me. > > Cheers > Martyn > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK] On Behalf Of >> Dirk Kostrewa >> Sent: 30 August 2013 14:41 >> To: ccp4bb >> Subject: [ccp4bb] Fractional coordinate shift with two-character chain >> names? >> >> Dear CCP4ers, >> >> I want to apply a fractional coordinate shift along a polar b-axis with >> coordinates that have non-standard two-character chain names, such as >> "AA", "AB", and so forth. Unfortunately, neither the old USF moleman2 >> nor the actual CCP4 pdbset can handle these chain names. To my >> knowledge, only COOT and PHENIX can cope with them. >> Before I start writing my own little jiffy, is there a quick way to use >> COOT or PHENIX to apply a fractional coordinate shift, or could you >> tell me, which other program I can use in this special case? >> >> Best regards, >> >> Dirk. >> >> -- >> >> ******************************************************* >> Dirk Kostrewa >> Gene Center Munich >> Department of Biochemistry >> Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München >> Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25 >> D-81377 Munich >> Germany >> Phone: +49-89-2180-76845 >> Fax: +49-89-2180-76999 >> E-mail: kostr...@genzentrum.lmu.de >> WWW: www.genzentrum.lmu.de >> ******************************************************* -- ******************************************************* Dirk Kostrewa Gene Center Munich Department of Biochemistry Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25 D-81377 Munich Germany Phone: +49-89-2180-76845 Fax: +49-89-2180-76999 E-mail: kostr...@genzentrum.lmu.de WWW: www.genzentrum.lmu.de *******************************************************
