This may be worth to mention in this context:

http://cci.lbl.gov/hybrid_36/

Pavel


On Fri, Aug 30, 2013 at 9:14 AM, MARTYN SYMMONS <
[email protected]> wrote:

> Hold your horsemen!
> Does not this option save us from 'formatagedon'?
> We currently only have single letters or numbers for chains. But we could
> easily agree to switch to double letters. And long chains can be a sequence
> of letter number permutations such as A1, A2, A3 etc (actually I notice
> single numbers are allowed for the PDB - although are deprecated until all
> the letters have been used).
> We could allow the first character to be a number as well - so 11 12 13 as
> a valid sequence.for a single polymer.
> Conversely we could expand the atom identifier to include letters as is
> the case with most computing identifiers - however not many programs seem
> to pay attention to the atom 'numbers' in any case.
>
> Cheers
>   Martyn
>
> Martyn Symmons (not Winn)
> Cambridge
>
>   ------------------------------
>  *From:* Dirk Kostrewa <[email protected]>
> *To:* [email protected]
> *Sent:* Friday, 30 August 2013, 15:36
> *Subject:* Re: [ccp4bb] Fractional coordinate shift with two-character
> chain names?
>
> Hi Martyn,
>
> excellent - this worked!
>
> Many thanks!
>
> Cheers,
>
> Dirk.
>
> Am 30.08.13 16:04, schrieb Martyn Winn:
> > IIRC the CCP4 library (i.e. mmdb) can handle 2-character chain names.
> There may be something specific in pdbset which interferes. You can try
> pdbcur as an alternative. Something like:
> >
> > pdbcur xyzin toxd_AA.pdb xyzout toxd_out.pdb <<eof
> > translate * frac 0 0.2 0
> > end
> > eof
> >
> > I just tried it on a little example, and it works for me.
> >
> > Cheers
> > Martyn
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> >> Dirk Kostrewa
> >> Sent: 30 August 2013 14:41
> >> To: ccp4bb
> >> Subject: [ccp4bb] Fractional coordinate shift with two-character chain
> >> names?
> >>
> >> Dear CCP4ers,
> >>
> >> I want to apply a fractional coordinate shift along a polar b-axis with
> >> coordinates that have non-standard two-character chain names, such as
> >> "AA", "AB", and so forth. Unfortunately, neither the old USF moleman2
> >> nor the actual CCP4 pdbset can handle these chain names. To my
> >> knowledge, only COOT and PHENIX can cope with them.
> >> Before I start writing my own little jiffy, is there a quick way to use
> >> COOT or PHENIX to apply a fractional coordinate shift, or could you
> >> tell me, which other program I can use in this special case?
> >>
> >> Best regards,
> >>
> >> Dirk.
> >>
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>
> *******************************************************
> Dirk Kostrewa
> Gene Center Munich
> Department of Biochemistry
> Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
> Feodor-Lynen-Str. 25
> D-81377 Munich
> Germany
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> Fax:     +49-89-2180-76999
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