Hi Wolfram,

Yes, mmCIF has been suggested to PDB2PQR developers, see:
https://github.com/Electrostatics/apbs-pdb2pqr/issues/471

Cheers,
  Thomas

> On Dec 7, 2017, at 8:06 PM, wtempel <wtem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Thomas,
> how did you know? I removed the --whitespace switch, and get a meaningful 
> model displayed in PyMOL. Has the mmcif format been suggested to the PDB2PQR 
> developers?
> Many thanks.
> Wolfram
> 
> On Thu, Dec 7, 2017 at 3:01 AM, Thomas Holder <thomas.hol...@schrodinger.com> 
> wrote:
> Hi Wolfram,
> 
> Do you run pdb2pqr with the --whitespace option? If yes, remove that and see 
> if PyMOL is happy with the output.
> 
> Some versions of PyMOL's APBS Tools plugin have the --whitespace option by 
> default (first page, "pdb2pqr command line options") but it seems that this 
> flag creates about as many problems as it solves. The correct solution would 
> be to retire the PQR format and replace it with mmCIF, which is not a fixed 
> column format.
> 
> Cheers,
>   Thomas
> 
> > On Dec 7, 2017, at 1:14 AM, wtempel <wtem...@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > Hello,
> > loading a pqr (PDB2PQR version 2.1.1) file into pymol 1.7 … 1.9 garbles the 
> > model in some systematic way, whereas PDB2PQR version 1.8 output appears to 
> > be displayed correctly. After superficial inspection I concluded that in 
> > 2.1.1 output, columns from (and including) the atom number appear to be 
> > shifted to the right by one position. Indeed, when I apply
> > sed 's/^ATOM /ATOM/', the so modified 2.1.1 output appears to be displayed 
> > correctly in PyMOL. My question to those familiar with pqr models and the 
> > pymol source: is the sed hack safe as in that it would not distort any 
> > subsequently calculated APBS surfaces?
> > Best regards.
> > Wolfram Tempel

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Thomas Holder
PyMOL Principal Developer
Schrödinger, Inc.


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