I'm writing a script that writes a Python script that loads PDB files and displays them in cartoon representation. The problem is that, if the PDB file doesn't contain secondary structure records, you get a ribbon-like representation rather than a proper cartoon. The obvious way to fix this is to run util.ss but this can be slow if you have a lot of structures. Is there a way in the API to tell whether a PDB file you've loaded contains secondary structure records, so that you can avoid an unnecessary call to util.ss?
Tom Walsh