for me more then one chain is an assembly ( or complex) I would leave Chain because in modeling sometimes people takes domains from different places ( with different chain ids) and this information might be useful. On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:13 PM, Daniel Russel wrote:
> Does it make sense to talk about a protein which consists of more > than one chain? I've heard people use the words that way (and there > are google hits, but not a huge number), but it was suggested that > this is a misuse of the words. It would make the atom hierarchy a > bit simpler to say a protein is a single chain and has HierarchyType > PROTEIN (and to remove the CHAIN type). > > Authoritative answers? Votes? > _______________________________________________ > IMP-dev mailing list > IMP-dev@salilab.org > https://salilab.org/mailman/listinfo/imp-dev