I care :) for example Calcium and Calpha atom will have the same atom name "CA" there is a reason for having this column in PDB format.
On Thu, Aug 6, 2009 at 10:46 PM, Daniel Russeldrussel@gmail.com wrote: > > On Aug 6, 2009, at 10:36 PM, Dina Schneidman wrote: > >> the right way to determine the element is from element field in pdb, >> since from atom type it can be ambiguous. > > When is it ambiguous? Is if often enough that we care? Certainly some have > have no element (eg water), but for those it doesn't really matter what gets > written out. > >> if the element is not >> determined and stored when the pdb is read than the information is >> lost. I suggest just to fix the writer. > > _______________________________________________ > IMP-dev mailing list > IMP-dev@salilab.org > https://salilab.org/mailman/listinfo/imp-dev >