Thank you immensely for that list, Rolf. OK, so I have it set now to 
replace non alphanumeric digits with "_" in the variable name site_XXX. 
Not a perfect solution, but a serviceable one, I think.

Bob


Rolf Huehne wrote:

>Frieda Reichsman wrote:
>  
>
>>On Oct 15, 2007, at 11:45 AM, Angel Herraez wrote:
>>
>>    
>>
>>>SITE     1 CAT  3 SER A 200  GLU A 327  HIS A 440
>>>
>>>would give e.g.
>>>
>>>define site_CAT SER200:A, GLU327:A, HIS440:A
>>>
>>>right?
>>>
>>>then, you could
>>>         select site_CAT
>>>
>>>
>>>That must be done within the pdb reader, I guess.
>>>
>>>For sure the Master can take care of this in a snap :-)
>>>      
>>>
>>This would be a powerful piece of code for Jmol. Eric Martz implemented
>>a similar thing in Protein Explorer (see the "Features of the Molecule"
>>control panel in PE) and it is wicked cool, not to mention incredibly
>>useful.
>>
>>There can be more than one "site" defined in a pdb file, for example
>>catalytic as opposed to ligand-binding, and there can be more than one
>>of each, of course. I don't know how much that would complicate things.
>>At present, a minority of pdb file define sites, but still, a very
>>useful feature when the definitions are there.
>>
>>    
>>
>
>We also implemented a "site" selection mechanism in the "JenaLib Jmol
>Viewer" (e.g.:
>http://www.fli-leibniz.de/cgi-bin/3d_mapping.pl?CODE=1deh&VIEW=site).
>
>Since we are scanning the whole PDB for site information it might be
>helpful to share our observations:
>
>1) Until now all site identifiers are unique inside each PDB file. This
>means that each site is present only once. If there are several sites of
>the same type the identifiers are usually numbered, e.g. ZA1, ZA2.
>
>2) Unlike Eran seems to think there is no defined site number, only the
>siteID . (see PDB format description at
>"http://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/format23/sect7.html";)
>
>3) There are about 100 PDB entries with site documentation but without a
>residue list.
>
>4) There are currently 26 site IDs with special characters not
>compatible with Jmol set definitions:
>+--------+---------+
>| PDB_id | site_id |
>+--------+---------+
>| 1a03   | L2'     |
>| 1a03   | LI'     |
>| 1a4u   | ND'     |
>| 1aqp   | C-I     |
>| 1cbf   | P-4     |
>| 1gqv   | P-1     |
>| 1ies   | 1'      |
>| 1ies   | 2'      |
>| 1nlk   | E-P     |
>| 1rne   | S1'     |
>| 1rne   | S2'     |
>| 1sbn   | S1'     |
>| 1sbn   | S2'     |
>| 1sbn   | S3'     |
>| 1sbn   | S4'     |
>| 1sib   | S1'     |
>| 1sib   | S2'     |
>| 1sib   | S3'     |
>| 1srx   | S-S     |
>| 1ums   | S1'     |
>| 1ums   | S2'     |
>| 1ums   | S3'     |
>| 1umt   | S1'     |
>| 1umt   | S2'     |
>| 1umt   | S3'     |
>| 2dlf   | H-1     |
>+--------+---------+
>
>5) You have to be careful with hetero component residue names. They
>might clash with reserved words in Jmol. Therefore we avoid including
>the residue name in the set definition.
>
>Regards,
>Rolf
>
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