Dear Sefano,

 Thanks for the reply, I was suspecting the same. However I need the PDB 3D
coordinates mapped on the original SMILES, that's why I was trying reading
the PDB. I am wondering if there are any methods to map the PDB coordinates
of a molecule to its original SMILES?

Thanks,
Sam

On Wed, Aug 31, 2016 at 5:14 PM, Stefano Forli <fo...@scripps.edu> wrote:

> Sam,
> I wouldn't trust the PDB for either bond order or connectivity.
> In OB the order is inferred from the distances, which are dependent on the
> quality of the structure and the software used for the model refinement.
>
> For example, I found that in structures generated a version of Refmac, the
> oxygen double bond lenght in the DMSO is wrong, so OB assigns an sp3
> hybridization to it.
>
> If you have to do that in a high-throughput fashion, I would use the
> ligand ID to download the actual SMILES from the ligand repository at the
> PDB and use that for your analysis.
>
> Best,
>
> S
>
>
>
> On 08/31/2016 01:51 PM, Sam Tonddast-Navaei wrote:
>
>> I am trying to read a small molecule from PDB file and match its atom
>> numbers to the same
>> molecule in a SDF file. I have tried both matching SMART patterns and
>> using OBIsomorphismMapper, both work for 70% of cases. However there are
>> cases for which
>> OpenBabel can not simply get the right SMILES from just the PDB file
>> (e.g.  adds extra
>> double bonds or miss ones). For example in PDB ID 1KF6 and ligand name
>> IPE, if you
>> generate SMILES from PDB you will get OCCO/C=C/OCCO/C=C/O/C=C/O while the
>> correct one
>> should be OCCOCCOCCOCCOCCO. I would appreciate if someone can give me
>> some advise on this.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Sam
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