On Fri, 4 Dec 2020 at 09:21, Luca Jovine <luca.jov...@ki.se> wrote: > > Yes Tristan, that would be even better - also because such an Ag1, Ag2,… > system could conveniently fall back on a single-character chain A, when > generating legacy PDB format files from the mmCIF ones.
mmCIF already has two sets of identifiers, including two separate chain names (and both are present in all files from the wwPDB). The one discussed here is auth_asym_id (author's chain ID - used in pdb files), the other one is label_asym_id (let's call it label chain ID). Having two sets of identifiers is obviously confusing (as can be seen by just looking at any mmCIF file) and it'd help a lot if the two IDs were consistent: the label chain ID could start with the corresponding author's chain ID. For example, similarly to what Tristan proposed, author's chain A could be split into label chains Amain, Ag1, Ag2, etc. Marcin ######################################################################## To unsubscribe from the CCP4BB list, click the following link: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/WA-JISC.exe?SUBED1=CCP4BB&A=1 This message was issued to members of www.jiscmail.ac.uk/CCP4BB, a mailing list hosted by www.jiscmail.ac.uk, terms & conditions are available at https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/policyandsecurity/
