On 01/20/2016 10:06 AM, Peter Shenkin wrote: ... the terrible old PDB file format ...
> As for those who would write that format, fight it! :-) > > The above, in my view, represents the voice of reason, and is therefore > unlikely to be generally adopted.... The long story is that most applications actually using the data need only the table of coordinates and that's pretty much what PDB file is. PDB's replacement: mmCIF includes everything and the kitchen sink wrapped in a subset of STAR-98 syntax. All of that is excess baggage nobody wants. As much as PDB wants the old busted PDB format gone, they are not offering a usable alternative that I know of. That's exactly what we've been doing at BMRB, too, and then complaining about low rate of adoption of NMR-STAR by the NMR community. -- Dimitri Maziuk Programmer/sysadmin BioMagResBank, UW-Madison -- http://www.bmrb.wisc.edu
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