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A file format used in structural biology to describe the 3-D coordinates of atoms of a biological structure, often a protein. Can also refer to the Protein Data Bank database, which stores all the submitted biological structures, most of which were obtained using X-ray crystallography.

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Does the `mmcif/pdb` format store atomic coordinates in units of Ångstrom, nanometers or something else?

I was surprised as to how hard it was to find a reference on this among the docs. Does the Protein Data Bank mmcif/pdb-x archival format use Angstrom to specify cartesian x,y,z coordinates of atoms or ...
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(Complete) Stuctural Models of Antibodies: Combining Fc and Fab from pdb to Build Hinge Region? Or what?

I'm a newcomer to the field of antibodies, and I'm seeking guidance on obtaining 3D structures for my molecular simulations. After browsing the PDB databank, I noticed that there are Fab and Fc ...
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How to add charges to a PDB file?

I did some calculations using a PDB file as input. As a result, I got a file with the atomic partial charges (only the values in one column, no other information) and the output PDB file structure ...
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Downloading a list of all RCSB-PDB entries

I'm trying to download a list of all of the non-redundant protein chain IDs in the RSCB-PDB (not the actual FASTA entries, just the IDs), filtered by some % identity. Does anyone know how to do this? ...
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Ramachandran Plot for specific amino acids in a pdb file

Does anyone know of a Ramachandran plot server (URL please) that allows you to display, for example, just the leucine residues in a protein structure rather than displaying all the amino acids in the ...
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How does BioJava retrieve bond information from a PDB file?

How can I compute energy from a protein PDB file? I asked the above question. Then I thought, Why don't I check how BioJava obtains bond information from a protein PDB file? Surprisingly, BioJava's ...
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How can I compute energy from a protein PDB file?

Suppose I have a protein PDB file and want to compute energy using the following formula from the coordinates in the file. How can I do that? Sometimes people suggest using the ...
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Align two different structures with respect to their active sites or heme cofactor

I have two enzymes, with heme cofactors. but their overall structure is very different. I use Pymol regularly to visualize protein pdb structures. I want to align both structures, but the structures ...
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Good practices for doing sanity checks when parsing multiple PDB files

This is my first time posting to stack exchange, as well as to using data-driven approaches, so please correct me if my questions is not clear enough. I am trying to parse 200+ .pdb files to extract ...
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Is there any python module to assign secondary structures which includes both Polyprolene region as well as individual strand as well?

I wanted to assign secondary structure to set of pdb files. However, DSSP and STRIDE cannot assign for single peptides if it is falling inside single long beta strand or polyprolene region as it does ...
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Generating 3D cartesian coordinates of a peptide and computing van der Waal interactions (1-4 atoms) for a given set of dihedral angles?

I wanted to generate 3D Cartesian coordinates of a peptide sequence for fixed bond lengths and bond angles for a given set of backbone dihedral angles and side dihedral angles. I also wanted to ...
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Detect monomer from from multimer structure in PDB files?

I have a bunch of .pdb files that consist of protein-peptide structures. However, before start working with them I need to clean them. Now, I can easily remove water, ion, or other stuff like BMET, ...
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complete the res type in sdf

I use the diffdock (link to diffdock on github) to dock a peptide with protein and this tool give me a ligand in sdf file format. I traslate this ligand sdf format file to a pdb format file and find ...
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Molecular dynamic simulation, reconstuction of protonation pattern of a protein from PDB file without resolvent hydrogen

I'm trying to build a topology of a protein using GROMACS. The pdb file do not include coordinates of hydrogen atoms. So I was wondering how to assign appropriate protonation states for each residue. ...
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which secondary structure assignment algorithm is used by PDB?

older releases of PDB used to specify DSSP as the 2ary structure assignment algorithm used in PDB, right now no algorithm is explicitly stated. Where can I find a reference for it in the database?
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What tool(s) can I use to use a .faa file to feed into JSMol?

JSMol, the molecular modelling software, requires PDB file format to work and render the graphics. Currently, I am writing an annotation software - backend in Perl - that takes in a .faa file (fasta ...
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How to extract a list of hydrogen bonds from a PDB?

I am analyzing the 7VF2 structure, from the RCSB-database. I noticed that some residues belonging to one of its chains interact with the other chains that are present within the assembly. My question ...
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Why do XRAY (but not CryoEM) structures of ribosome in PDB have 2 assemblies?

When i started programming against PDB i had a mixture of confusion & frustration with the fact that certain cif files contain two actual structures aka ...
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How is the "canonical" version (`_entity_poly.pdbx_seq_one_letter_code`) obtained in the PDB?

I encountered the dichotomy in the context of PDBx/mmcif files, say, 6OSQ: each chain has a _entity_poly.pdbx_seq_one_letter_code...
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What is changed in this PDB file?

I used a tool called reduce to add Hydrogen bonds information to the PDB file. I used the command: $ ./reduce -NOFLIP 2GB1.pdb > 2GB1_with_H.pdb The output file ...
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Why are conversion output SMARTS strings are not the same for different file types of the same structure?

I've just used Open Babel to convert .sdf and .mol2 files to SMARTS, and I'm a bit surprised the output can be different for the same structure. It's confusing me that one structure, one piece of ...
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How to download ligands for PDB structure

I have some PDB IDs and for every structure, I need all its ligands, so I want to automate the process. The ligands are different for every chain: ...
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CONECT doesnt include all the connections the 1vfl macro molecule have in a pdb file

I have a 1vfl macro molecule with 3000 atoms in it. When i open it in DC accelrys visualizer. It has much bonds. but when i open the pdb file it just have 8 connections. You can download the pdb here(...
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What is the correct method of identifying the interacting residues for specific molecular docking?

I'm trying to do a specific molecular docking using Autodock Vina in PyRx. So, one way to do that is to mark all of the interacting residues and make sure the grid box encompasses all of that ...
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How can I get the coordinates of Hydrogen atoms attached to alpha-carbon?

I am trying to extract the hydrogen atoms attached to the Ca carbon in N no. of proteins. I would be needing the coordinates to calculate its centroid. How should I do it in python ?
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Why am I not being able to detect all the bonds in a residue?

Let us consider the first seven atoms of the protein 1CRN.pdb: ...
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Creating a PDB from a figure in paper

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? Thank you.
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How can I clean a PDB file using VMD or NAMD?

I have 3884 PDB files generated by pd2_ca2main. PD2 CA2main is server for reconstructing the backbone of Calpha proteins using Gaussian mixture models. All of these files have duplicate atoms or ...
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Mapping PDB ID + chain ID to UniProt ID

This question was addressed here. Unfortunately, including bioservices, the solutions pypdb and ...
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Read PDB file, extract dihedral angles, modify dihedral angles, reconstruct Cartesian coordinates, and write PDB file

As the title summarizes, I am trying to: Read a PDB file (for example, 1enh.pdb). Extract the backbone dihedral angles (phi, psi). Modify the dihedral angles (phi, ...
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Extract single frame with MDAnalysis

How can I do to extract a single frame as a pdb file from a trajectory traj.xtc file, by using MDAnalysis? I've got a universe u=mda.Universe('confout.gro','traj.xtc') Then I selected a residue by ...
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Which atoms are not found in protein PDB files?

I am developing an educational Bioinformatics framework, I need to know Which atoms are absolutely not found in any PDB files? in the following list - Atomic radii of the elements (data page)
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Example of a small but moderately complex PDB file?

I am developing a bioinformatics framework only for learning purposes. I want to calculate -- dihedral angles detect H, E, and C components detect Hydrogen bonds etc. Therefore, I want a PDB file ...
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How can I parse alternative atom information?

I am trying to parse PDB files. Say, a PDB file has the following data: ...
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What do these characters mean in a PDB file?

The 33rd atom information in 3nir.pdb is written as follows: ATOM 33 N ATHR A 2 4.935 -11.632 15.046 0.74 2.95 N How should I interpret <...
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How can I calculate the radius of a residue?

I want to read a PDB file and display/render the atoms using a graphics engine. If I consider each residue in the protein as a solid sphere, what would be the radius of the sphere? How can I calculate ...
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What is the function of the heteroatoms

I am trying to make a prediction application using the sequence of proteins. If we think about the 6COU protein, I'm running the code below ...
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How to extract residues from specific chain of interest from multiple pdb files?

I'm new to biopython & I'm trying to extract residues from specific chain of each file from a list of 316 pdb files. Eg: 1d8t has four chains A, B, C & D of which my interest is to extract ...
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Repeating indexes of atoms in PDB file

I have a PDB file in which the indexes of atoms are repeated (or better say refreshed) every 99999. I am using MDtraj software to analyze this pdf file, so these repeating indexes cause some problems. ...
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Protein-Ligand in PDB

I am a newbie in bioinformatics. In PDB, while searching for proteins, I sometimes get protein with ligand, such as PDB ID 1J1Z. In cases I get pure protein structure, in some cases I get protein-with ...
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How reliable is Alphafold2 for folding random-coil peptide

I have a peptide X of length 50aa. Alphafold2 predicted the structure which takes a helix form and with high average pLDDT score (>90). But during actual experiment (e.g. crystallography, ...
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Active sites of the query protein does not align with the top hit using HHpred

I am having difficulties with an alignment on HHpred and was wondering if anyone had any answer to the following: I am trying to align my protein (PDB 2VU9, a Botulinum Neurotoxin Type a) with one of ...
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BioPython internal_coords module returns different dihedral angles for the (seemingly) same protein structure

I am using the internal_coords module from BioPython in order to compare dihedral angles of two different conformations of the same protein. The conformations are ...
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How can I convert protein distance maps and sequences to a pdb files?

How can I convert protein distance maps and sequences to pdb files? For the same problem, in the case of a model predicting the structure of a protein, such as AlphaFold, how do we convert the ...
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How can I list all amino acids in a protein using PyMOL?

What is the command in PyMOL for listing all the amino acids in a specific protein, say, 1a62.pdb?
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Relationship between entries for same UniProt Id

I was playing around, looking at some AlphaFold predictions for certain proteins and I realized that sometimes the sequences of aminoacid look very different for the same UniProt id. For example, 15C8 ...
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Are the information stored in the PBD files in the protein data bank complete or incomplete?

I know that there are thousands of PDB files stored in Protein Data Banks. Are all these files complete in terms of the information they store? If YES, do the individual files get updated from time to ...
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Is there a way to get a list of all PDB IDs for proteins with crystal structure information?

I would like to download all the PDB files which have crystal structure information in them. But the query builder seems to require me to enter the PDB IDs manually. Is there a way to get a list of ...
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PDBQT file format

I am trying to understand the source code of the AutoDock Vina, but as I am new to the field of Bioinformatics it is a little hard to understand. It seems like they are using a tree data structure to ...
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Extracting and analyzing structure data of multiple proteins from PDB using Python

I am new to programming and I am given the task to extract structural data of soluble proteins from PDB and then shortlist the soluble enzymes from the extracted data set for further classification ...
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