ok - if you mean that Chain should not be part of the Hierarchy, I guess it makes sense, as usually protein == chain. On Oct 8, 2009, at 6:15 PM, Keren Lasker wrote:
> 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 >