Hi Rachel, Thanks for clarifying this. Things will be much easier when SPLIT entries are consolidated. That is, when all the software is updated as well.
> Entries are split only for reasons of size. 1apg was, sort of, an example of the contrary (see the, now obsolete, reflection file). I thought there were more examples, but fortunately I couldn't find any quickly. Cheers, Robbie > We will continue the practice that any structure deposited as a single > PDBx/mmCIF file will be divided into SPLIT files and added to the ftp archive > as usual, in all supported formats (PDB, PDBx/mmCIF, PDBML/XML). > > Entries are split only for reasons of size. SPLIT entries currently in the > archive > will remain as they are until sometime in 2014 when we plan to consolidate all > existing and new SPLIT entries into single large files. > > Regards, > Rachel > > > ________________________________ > > > Rachel Kramer Green, Ph.D. > > RCSB PDB > > kra...@rcsb.rutgers.edu > > > > > > Twitter: https://twitter.com/#!/buildmodels > > Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/RCSBPDB > > > > On 5/24/2013 12:41 PM, Robbie Joosten wrote: > > > > Perhaps a silly question: will old entries with SPLIT records be > superseded by consolidated entries? And what about entries split for other > reasons than size (there are only a few of those, and they are old)? > > Cheers, > Robbie > > ________________________________ > > Van: Gerard DVD Kleywegt > Verzonden: 24-5-2013 20:21 > Aan: CCP4BB@JISCMAIL.AC.UK > Onderwerp: [ccp4bb] "Formageddon" is upon us... Important news > from wwPDB! > > > > Dear colleagues, > > I would like to draw your attention to a notification from the wwPDB > partners > about "Deposition and Release of PDB Entries Containing Large > Structures" - > see: > > http://www.wwpdb.org/news/news_2013.html#22-May-2013 > > There are major changes afoot in the way large structures are > handled in the > PDB, as well as in the deposition and annotation procedures and > software used > by the wwPDB sites. This is of immediate relevance for depositors > and users of > large structures, but also for software developers and anyone who > routinely > processes the entire PDB archive or its weekly releases > (bioinformatics > resources, etc.). From 2014, it will affect essentially everyone who > deposits, > uses or processes PDB entries. > > If you have any questions about the new deposition system or the > procedures > for handling large structures or any of the other changes, please > contact: > i...@wwpdb.org > > Please pass on this information to anyone likely to be affected by the > upcoming changes. Thanks! > > > On behalf of the Worldwide Protein Data Bank, > > --Gerard Kleywegt > > --- > Gerard J. Kleywegt, PDBe, EMBL-EBI, Hinxton, UK > ger...@ebi.ac.uk ..................... pdbe.org > Secretary: Pauline Haslam pdbe_ad...@ebi.ac.uk > >
