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I want to create a PDB file of a drug that is given in a paper. Can somebody share a tutorial or similar resources for a beginner-level user? the chemical structure I want to create a PDB from Thank you.

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    $\begingroup$ Could you add some context? What do you want the PDB file for? Do you have the structure of this molecule in another file format? (I didn't read the paper). $\endgroup$
    – marcin
    Commented Nov 2, 2022 at 19:58
  • $\begingroup$ yep have same question. Wouldn' t a cif file better serve the use if needed for fitting a ligand into electron density ? Or you just nred to depict molecule in 3D ? $\endgroup$
    – pippo1980
    Commented Nov 27, 2022 at 15:09

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You can use Image2Smiles tool. It produces smi format, then you can convert smi to pdb using openbabel.

If you just have a few figures, I suggest using PubChem Sketcher.

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or you could taket it from :

https://www.rcsb.org/structure/7WMV pdb file

HETATM 4865  C13 1YI A 701     106.585 114.218 112.698  1.00 74.13           C  
HETATM 4866  C15 1YI A 701     106.050 112.633 114.547  1.00102.13           C  
HETATM 4867  C17 1YI A 701     104.024 111.140 110.766  1.00 89.07           C  
HETATM 4868  C20 1YI A 701     103.626 108.779 110.527  1.00 83.00           C  
HETATM 4869  C21 1YI A 701     104.626 108.507 111.437  1.00 84.86           C  
HETATM 4870  C22 1YI A 701     102.234 110.466 109.205  1.00 85.32           C  
HETATM 4871  C24 1YI A 701     100.911 110.073 109.846  1.00 66.83           C  
HETATM 4872  C26 1YI A 701      92.545 108.407 114.139  1.00 95.68           C  
HETATM 4873  C28 1YI A 701     100.141 109.053 109.319  1.00 63.43           C  
HETATM 4874  C11 1YI A 701     105.694 113.343 111.806  1.00 75.91           C  
HETATM 4875  C12 1YI A 701     105.840 111.929 112.354  1.00 91.76           C  
HETATM 4876  C14 1YI A 701     105.990 114.087 114.099  1.00 85.43           C  
HETATM 4877  C16 1YI A 701     105.029 110.853 111.663  1.00 99.03           C  
HETATM 4878  C18 1YI A 701     105.319 109.548 112.006  1.00100.47           C  
HETATM 4879  C19 1YI A 701     103.333 110.096 110.188  1.00 81.96           C  
HETATM 4880  C23 1YI A 701     104.801 110.649 116.200  1.00 88.38           C  
HETATM 4881  C25 1YI A 701     102.892 107.590 109.921  1.00 99.79           C  
HETATM 4882  C27 1YI A 701     100.517 110.745 110.979  1.00 88.80           C  
HETATM 4883  C29 1YI A 701      98.556 109.383 111.080  1.00 77.66           C  
HETATM 4884  C30 1YI A 701      97.245 109.006 111.756  1.00 83.68           C  
HETATM 4885  C31 1YI A 701      97.108 107.503 111.935  1.00 85.27           C  
HETATM 4886  C32 1YI A 701      99.328 110.410 111.602  1.00 90.75           C  
HETATM 4887  C33 1YI A 701      98.954 108.713 109.937  1.00 76.18           C  
HETATM 4888  C34 1YI A 701      96.107 107.127 113.039  1.00 98.03           C  
HETATM 4889  C35 1YI A 701      94.780 107.913 113.042  1.00 92.89           C  
HETATM 4890  C36 1YI A 701      91.696 107.883 115.298  1.00113.05           C  
HETATM 4891  C37 1YI A 701      92.889 109.868 114.425  1.00 87.90           C  
HETATM 4892  C38 1YI A 701      91.711 108.277 112.861  1.00 77.85           C  
HETATM 4893  N8  1YI A 701      93.804 107.673 114.094  1.00 93.06           N  
HETATM 4894  N9  1YI A 701      90.968 106.633 115.149  1.00106.00           N  
HETATM 4895  O2  1YI A 701     105.306 111.885 113.648  1.00 99.43           O  
HETATM 4896  O3  1YI A 701     106.050 113.444 110.457  1.00 80.66           O  
HETATM 4897  O4  1YI A 701     106.560 115.552 112.284  1.00 86.11           O  
HETATM 4898  O5  1YI A 701     106.634 114.878 115.050  1.00 99.48           O  
HETATM 4899  O6  1YI A 701      94.512 108.703 112.208  1.00 84.41           O  
HETATM 4900  O7  1YI A 701      91.625 108.487 116.316  1.00101.67           O  
HETATM 4901  S1  1YI A 701     105.267 112.404 116.160  1.00121.62           S  

picture :

picture got with https://litemol.org/Viewer/

obtained with : https://litemol.org/Viewer/

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realized that ligand in pdb its not the full ligand of your picture,

need to get it from Ligand page on RCSB_PDB : https://www.rcsb.org/ligand/1YI

download links highlighted in pics :

ligs

download /1YI_ideal.sdf convert via openbabel :

http://www.cheminfo.org/Chemistry/Cheminformatics/FormatConverter/index.html

result

WARNING: damped steplength 0.0184262 to 0.00725371
WARNING: damped steplength 0.00508674 to 0.00100138
COMPND    1YI 
AUTHOR    GENERATED BY OPEN BABEL 2.3.2
HETATM    1  C   LIG     1       3.537  -2.101   2.235  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM    2  C   LIG     1       2.812  -4.346   1.266  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM    3  C   LIG     1       2.262  -2.902  -2.712  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM    4  C   LIG     1       0.447  -1.602  -3.663  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM    5  C   LIG     1       0.405  -0.869  -2.474  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM    6  C   LIG     1       1.522  -3.533  -5.065  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM    7  C   LIG     1       0.305  -3.796  -5.950  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM    8  C   LIG     1      -5.920  -1.833 -12.368  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM    9  C   LIG     1      -0.581  -4.848  -5.684  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   10  C   LIG     1       2.908  -1.583   0.938  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   11  C   LIG     1       3.139  -2.484  -0.313  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   12  C   LIG     1       3.714  -3.615   2.273  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   13  C   LIG     1       2.202  -2.172  -1.496  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   14  C   LIG     1       1.247  -1.156  -1.414  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   15  C   LIG     1       1.366  -2.666  -3.802  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   16  C   LIG     1       1.091  -5.111   3.310  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   17  C   LIG     1      -0.531  -1.162  -4.707  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   18  C   LIG     1      -0.009  -2.939  -7.020  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   19  C   LIG     1      -2.131  -4.074  -7.418  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   20  C   LIG     1      -3.479  -4.118  -8.115  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   21  C   LIG     1      -3.492  -4.837  -9.473  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   22  C   LIG     1      -1.224  -3.051  -7.715  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   23  C   LIG     1      -1.778  -4.991  -6.415  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   24  C   LIG     1      -4.883  -4.859 -10.129  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   25  C   LIG     1      -5.503  -3.491 -10.484  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   26  C   LIG     1      -7.501  -1.753 -12.406  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   27  C   LIG     1      -5.427  -1.719 -13.834  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   28  C   LIG     1      -5.340  -0.600 -11.644  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   29  N   LIG     1      -5.408  -3.127 -11.821  1.00  0.00           N  
HETATM   30  N   LIG     1      -8.129  -2.821 -13.038  1.00  0.00           N  
HETATM   31  O   LIG     1       3.072  -3.897  -0.073  1.00  0.00           O  
HETATM   32  O   LIG     1       3.421  -0.244   0.755  1.00  0.00           O  
HETATM   33  O   LIG     1       2.698  -1.683   3.334  1.00  0.00           O  
HETATM   34  O   LIG     1       5.094  -3.922   1.972  1.00  0.00           O  
HETATM   35  O   LIG     1      -6.061  -2.821  -9.650  1.00  0.00           O  
HETATM   36  O   LIG     1      -8.120  -0.753 -12.076  1.00  0.00           O  
HETATM   37  S   LIG     1       1.026  -4.388   1.646  1.00  0.00           S  
HETATM   38  C   LIG     1      -9.774  -4.156 -16.922  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   39  C   LIG     1      -9.839  -1.879 -16.189  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   40  N   LIG     1      -9.383  -3.231 -15.850  1.00  0.00           N  
HETATM   41  C   LIG     1      -9.964  -3.665 -14.556  1.00  0.00           C  
HETATM   42  C   LIG     1      -9.568  -2.827 -13.310  1.00  0.00           C  
CONECT    1   10   12   33                                            
CONECT    2   31   12   37                                            
CONECT    3   15   13                                                 
CONECT    4   17   15    5                                            
CONECT    5    4   14                                                 
CONECT    6    7   15                                                 
CONECT    7    6    9   18                                            
CONECT    8   28   29   27   26                                       
CONECT    8                                                           
CONECT    9    7   23                                                 
CONECT   10   11    1   32                                            
CONECT   11   13   10   31                                            
CONECT   12    1    2   34                                            
CONECT   13    3   14   11                                            
CONECT   14    5   13                                                 
CONECT   15    6    4    3                                            
CONECT   16   37                                                      
CONECT   17    4                                                      
CONECT   18    7   22                                                 
CONECT   19   23   22   20                                            
CONECT   20   19   21                                                 
CONECT   21   20   24                                                 
CONECT   22   18   19                                                 
CONECT   23    9   19                                                 
CONECT   24   21   25                                                 
CONECT   25   35   24   29                                            
CONECT   26    8   30   36                                            
CONECT   27    8                                                      
CONECT   28    8                                                      
CONECT   29   25    8                                                 
CONECT   30   26   42                                                 
CONECT   31   11    2                                                 
CONECT   32   10                                                      
CONECT   33    1                                                      
CONECT   34   12                                                      
CONECT   35   25                                                      
CONECT   36   26                                                      
CONECT   37    2   16                                                 
CONECT   38   40                                                      
CONECT   39   40                                                      
CONECT   40   38   39   41                                            
CONECT   41   40   42                                                 
CONECT   42   41   30                                                 
MASTER        0    0    0    0    0    0    0    0   42    0   42    0
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picture here :

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more about the compound at:

PDB Chemical Component 1YI

UPDATE

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