Pdbfile:Chain Data

Question

[Reyhaneh]

Hi;

I have a question regarding downloading PDB Files. I know that we can download all the PDB files but is it also possible to download data for each chain. For example for "2FCW" we have "2FCW:A" and "2FCW:B". I want this for the whole PDB files.

Thanks

[Michael Schubert]

Just to be clear, you have a PDB file with multiple chains and would like to split it into multiple files, each containing one chain? How many files are you talking about?

[Reyhaneh]

Hi Michael, Yeas this was the case and I finally ended up writting a script for that myself. Thanks. Reyhaneh

Answer 1

[Mahdi Sarmady]

Once you downloaded all files, you can write a script to filter each and keep your desired chain from each file. PDB is a text file so this should work. ParsePDB does this for you: http://comp.chem.nottingham.ac.uk/parsepdb/

[Reyhaneh]

Hi Mehdi; I have already tried this..if you have it try for example "2FCW"...it has some problems...I have already contacted the person in charge and based on his reply I think this is not going to help solve my problem...