On 10 Apr 2006, at 10:12, Peter Rice wrote: > Enrique de Andres Saiz wrote: >> I have been looking the PDB fasta file and I see that, for the >> previous >> warning, there are an entry whoose id is '1FNT_A' and another one >> whoose >> id is '1FNT_a'. Then, this make me think that EMBOSS is >> case-insensitive. Is this true? Are there any way to distinguish >> between >> the two id's? > > Yes, EMBOSS is case-insensitive. So is the Staden/EMBLCD indexing > standard > that dbifasta uses. > > The standard also only allows one entry with each ID.
If anyone's interested I've got a small perl script which reformats the PDB database into a more sensible format and sorts out the problems with case sensitive ids and a number of other odd conventions used in PDB. I'm happy to supply a copy to anyone who wants it. TTFN Simon. -- Simon Andrews PhD Bioinformatics Dept. The Babraham Institute [EMAIL PROTECTED] +44 (0) 1223 496463 _______________________________________________ EMBOSS mailing list [email protected] http://lists.open-bio.org/mailman/listinfo/emboss
