On Jun 5, 2013, at 10:41 PM, Nat Echols wrote: > On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 2:37 PM, GRANT MILLS <[email protected]> > wrote: > My script seems to miscount the columns and read the two as one column, does > anyone know how to avoid this? (PS, I've googled this like crazy but I either > don't understand or the link is irrelevant) > > You should resist the temptation to write your own PDB parser; that way lies > pain and suffering. There are multiple free libraries for Python that can be > used for this task - I recommend either CCTBX or BioPython (probably the > latter if you don't need to do very much with the models). > > -Nat
"Resist the urge to duplicate the work of others" should be the first rule of programming if its not already (although it's the hardest rule to follow). I wrote a PDB tutorial for cctbx, which has probably the most powerful python PDB parsing library: http://cctbxwiki.bravais.net/CCTBX_Wiki#CCTBX_Basics James
