Thanks to all. Pymol does it readily, as Bob Immormino and Laurie Betts 
suggested. Other suggestions probably would also work.

Charlie

On Aug 20, 2010, at 9:20 PM, James Stroud wrote:

> You seem to have two different criteria listed, one more general than the 
> other:
> 
> 1. You need two or more PDB files to have the side chain atoms in the same 
> order.
> 2. You need a specific ordering of side chain atoms applied to all PDB files.
> 
> The former is easier because it doesn't require some committee to waste their 
> time agreeing on an ordering.
> 
> If the latter suffices and it is a one-off task, then I can do it for you. I 
> have an API for this kind of thing, but it is not documented...yet.
> 
> James
> 
> 
> 
> On Aug 20, 2010, at 9:50 AM, Charles W. Carter, Jr wrote:
> 
>> Is there a program that will read in a pdb coordinate file and re-order the 
>> side chain atoms in each residue according to a standard order?
>> 
>> I've a program that compares two files for the same structure, but requires 
>> that the order of the atoms be the same in both cases. I'm using a variety 
>> of files in which the residue atoms are ordered either main chain first or 
>> side-chain first. I've not found a suitable program in the CCP4 suite, 
>> though one might exist. MOLEMAN2 doesn't seem suitable, either.
>> 
>> Thanks,
>> 
>> Charlie

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