Rolf Huehne wrote:

>Bob Hanson wrote:
>  
>
>>OK, well, then, since they messed up there, I highly recommend you use 
>>"connect" just after loading. I've added the test for between-model 
>>bonding in Jmol 11.3.48
>>
>>    
>>
>I don't fully trust the connect mechanism in Jmol (I saw for example
>hydrogen atoms bonded covalently with 2 other atoms in close proximity
>[a single model file]). Therefore I would prefer to display the
>"official" bonds.
>
>  
>
sure -- that's fixed now. Have you tried 11.3.50?

>The PDB format documentation at
>"http://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/format23/sect10.html"; tells for
>multiple model cases the following:
>
>"For NMR entries, CONECT records for all models are generated describing
>heterogen connectivity and others for LINK records."
>
>This is not really clear. But it becomes more clear in combination with
>the documentation for "LINK" records at
>"http://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/format23/sect6.html#LINK":
>
>"For NMR entries only one set (or model) of LINK records will be supplied."
>
>This means that a single set of "CONECT" records has to be applied to
>all models (separately).
>
>  
>
>I analyzed the usage of "CONECT" records within all asymmetric and
>biological unit PDB format files of the Protein Data Bank. The outcome
>can be summarized as follows:
>
>1) There are never multiple sets of "CONECT" records.
>   (confirming the interpretation of the documentation)
>
>2) Statistics
>  asymmetric, with conect: 36791
>  asymmetric, with conect, with missing atoms: 40
>  asymmetric, with conect, > 1 model: 2336
>  asymmetric, with conect, > 1 model, with missing_atoms: 38
>  biological, with conect: 59933
>  biological, with conect, with missing atoms: 3624
>  biological, with conect, > 1 model: 8126
>  biological, with conect, > 1 model, with missing_atoms: 885
>
>The full results are (temporarily) available either as compressed CSV
>format file (692 kb) or as compressed MySQL dump (711 kb):
>
>http://www.fli-leibniz.de/~rhuehne/jmol/analyze_conect-2007_11_25-csv.zip
>http://www.fli-leibniz.de/~rhuehne/jmol/analyze_conect-2007_11_25-mysql.zip
>
>The colums are defined as follows:
>1) id: PDB ID
>2) unit_type: asymmetric/biological
>3) unit_number: biological unit number or zero for asymmetric unit
>4) maximum_model_number: largest model number found, -1 if no "MODEL"
>line found
>4) models_with_conect_count: number of "CONECT" record sets
>6) connected_atom_count: number of atoms referred to in "CONECT" records
> (missing atoms were not counted because they couldn't be classified)
>7) connected_hetatom_count: number of hetatoms referred to in "CONECT"
>records  (missing atoms were not counted because they couldn't be
>classified)
>8) missing_atom_count: number of atoms/hetatoms referred to in "CONECT"
>records that were not found in at least 1 model
>9) missing_atoms: complete list of missing atoms in Jmol-like manner
> (atom number/model_number)
>
>Since Jmol currently applies the "CONECT" record only to the last model
>before the "CONECT" record it doesn't comply with the PDB format
>specification.
>I think this should be changed.
>
>  
>
I do, too. Sounds like the connection should be applied to all models 
present. And missing atoms should be ignored.
I will implement that.

Bob


>Regards,
>Rolf
>
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Robert M. Hanson
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