Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-12 Thread Edward A Berry
Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote: I.e. the first 9 serial numbers are represented as usual. The following atoms use a base-36 system (10 digits + 26 letters) with upper-case letters. 43670016 (26*36**4) additional atoms can be numbered this way. If there are more than 43770015 (9+43670016)

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Ethan Merritt
DeLano Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 5:53 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey? Joe, I feel that atom serial numbers are particularly important, since they, combined with CONECT records, provide the only semi-standard convention I know

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Herbert J. Bernstein
is to maintain as much interoperability as possible. -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Santarsiero, Bernard D. Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 8:17 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey? Can I ask a dumb

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Warren DeLano
8:17 AM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey? Can I ask a dumb question? Just curious... Why are we now limited to 80 columns? In the old days, that was a limit with Fortran and punched cards. Can a record (whatever it's called now) be as long as we wish

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Warren DeLano
- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Warren DeLano Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 5:53 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey? Joe, I feel that atom serial numbers are particularly important, since they, combined

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
Dear George, I like your hybrid_ 36 scheme and will implement it and the two character hain IDs PDB file columns 21 and 22, right justified) when I next update HELXL. Of course I will need to do some programming because of the SHELX zero dependency' philosophy, but it seems to me to be

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Herbert J. Bernstein
To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey? Joe, I feel that atom serial numbers are particularly important, since they, combined with CONECT records, provide the only semi-standard convention I know of for reliably encoding bond valences information

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread George M. Sheldrick
Dear Ralf, I like your hybrid_ 36 scheme and will implement it and the two character chain IDs PDB file columns 21 and 22, right justified) when I next update SHELXL. Of course I will need to do some programming because of the SHELX 'zero dependency' philosophy, but it seems to me to be

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-10 Thread Kevin Cowtan
I support CCP4 adopting the hybrid36 and 2 char chain id extensions too. If no-one else steps up to do it, I'll try and patch mmdb to support it when I get time. Kevin George M. Sheldrick wrote: I like your hybrid_ 36 scheme and will implement it and the two character chain IDs PDB file

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-09 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Wednesday 08 August 2007 20:47, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote: The solution to this problem is to simply treat the serial numbers and residue numbers as strings. X-PLOR/CNS has been doing this forever, maybe other programs, too. Implementations to generate intuitive, maximally backward

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-09 Thread Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve
Hi Ethan, Is that A a hexidecimal number, or is it a decimal number that just happens to have an A in front of it? [A-Z][0-] gives a larger range of values than 5 bytes of hexadecimal, so I'm guessing it's the former. But the example is not clear. (yes I could download and inspect

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-09 Thread Joe Krahn
Edward A. Berry wrote: Ethan A Merritt wrote: On Wednesday 08 August 2007 20:47, Ralf W. Grosse-Kunstleve wrote: Implementations to generate intuitive, maximally backward compatible numbers can be found here: http://cci.lbl.gov/hybrid_36/ From that URL: ATOM 8 SD MET L

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-09 Thread Warren DeLano
standard set of hacks we all agree upon by supporting them in our code. Cheers, Warren -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Krahn Sent: Thursday, August 09, 2007 1:15 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey? Edward

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-02 Thread Bernhard Rupp
bulletin board [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Krahn Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 5:17 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey? Ethan Merritt wrote: Examples include: - very large structures, for which the current 80 column PDB format runs out of space

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-02 Thread Kevin Cowtan
Does it matter what the PDB use? They will export PDB and mmCIF for us to use, so what they use internally doesn't matter. (IIUC the EBI uses SQL). From my perspective as a developer I am not bothered in the slightest whether we use PDB or mmCIF, because I read everything through MMDB which

[ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-01 Thread Joe Krahn
So, I am thinking about putting up a survey somewhere to get a measure of the user-communities interests, because RCSB and wwPDB seem uninterested in doing so. Maybe a group result would be more useful in influencing the standards. I am hoping that the wwPDB can become a better place for format

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-01 Thread Ethan Merritt
On Wednesday 01 August 2007 14:10, Joe Krahn wrote: In addition to questions about the PDB standard, it is probably important to consider mmCIF. One thing I don't like about it is that columns can be randomized (i.e. X, Y, and Z can be in any column), but the mmCIF standards people have no

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-01 Thread Thomas Stout
organic firewall, -Tom -Original Message- From: CCP4 bulletin board on behalf of Ethan Merritt Sent: Wed 8/1/2007 3:06 PM To: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK Subject: Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey? On Wednesday 01 August 2007 14:10, Joe Krahn wrote: In addition to questions about the PDB standard

Re: [ccp4bb] PDB format survey?

2007-08-01 Thread Joe Krahn
Ethan Merritt wrote: Examples include: - very large structures, for which the current 80 column PDB format runs out of space for atom numbers (4 columns - max ) or for chain ids (1 column - single char A-Z 0-9) [don't ask my why they don't want lower case] - new classes of