Dear Miri,
thanks a lot for looking after this! I would like to have the actual
reference dictionaries for the most frequent and important compounds in
PDB files: amino acids, desoxy-ribonucleotides and ribonucleotides.
If there is anything special in the convention about water, metal ions,
halides, sulfate, phosphate and alike, I would also like to have quick
access to their dictionaries. Access to dictionaries of other more or
less frequently used compounds, like sugars, co-factors, and so on,
would also be much appreciated.
I can imagine, that a single document describing all possible compounds
would be simply too big. Personally, I think, a web-site containing
links to the dictionaries of amino acids, nucleic acids, sugars, water,
ions, co-factors and so on would be really helpful. Such a site could be
subdivided into categories, alphabetically, or any other order that
would help the users to get quick access to the required information.
Best regards,
Dirk.
Am 11.02.10 11:04, schrieb Miri Hirshberg:
Thurs. Feb. 11th 2010
EBI
Dear Dirk,
I see your point regarding the documentations, PDB is vast..
What exactly would you like to have?
Miri
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Dirk Kostrewa wrote:
Hello Miri,
yes, but if you look into these documents, they don't contain a good
dictionary of the usual compounds. They either have the broken link
that I've mentioned or point to the ftp-site with its cryptic
collection.
Anyway, thanks for the pointer.
Best regards,
Dirk.
Am 11.02.10 10:36, schrieb Miri Hirshberg:
Thurs., feb. 11th 2010
EBI
Hello,
to add to Randy Read's note, the following URL has
http://www.wwpdb.org/docs.html
has this documment and others in PDF or HTML
Miri
On Thu, 11 Feb 2010, Randy Read wrote:
Dear Dirk,
By coincidence, I was talking on Tuesday to Jawahar Swaminathan (at
PDBe at the EBI), mentioning that I'd had trouble tracking down the
documentation, and he forwarded me a link:
http://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/format32/v3.2.html
Hopefully that has the information you need.
Regards,
Randy
On 11 Feb 2010, at 08:55, Dirk Kostrewa wrote:
Dear CCP4ers,
I'm desperately trying to dig out a good documentation of the new
PDB 3.2 nomenclature on www.wwpdb.org, but find myself running in
circles. There is even a broken link to the nomenclature file
http://remediation.wwpdb.org/downloads/Components-rel-alt.cif. The
other link, ftp://ftp.wwpdb.org/pub/pdb/data/monomers, is a
cryptic collection of compounds.
Why isn't there a document for PDB 3.2 that covers the main
dictionaries for amino acids, nucleic acids, sugars, water and so
on (maybe with a useful link to more exotic compounds) like for
the old PDB 2.3?
Currently, I have to rely on the "remediator" program from the
Richardson lab for that, without even knowing whether it is always
correct. How could I possibly write a program that reads/writes
PDB 3.2 files correctly?
I would be very grateful for any useful document.
Best regards,
Dirk.
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European Bioinformatics Institute UK
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