Re: [IMP-dev] pdb patch

[Daniel Russel <drussel@gmail.com>]

Ben Webb wrote:
> Keren Lasker wrote:
>   
> > To follow pdb conventions, a patch that renames the type attribute to 
> > name attribute in both AtomDecerator and ResidueDecerator is attached.
> >     
> Why should we follow PDB conventions anyway? And I have a couple of 
> other problems with this proposed patch:
> 1. The residue type really is a type. All THY residues are thymines, for 
> example - it's not an arbitrary name.
>   
I generally agree with you for those reasons (obviously, I guess, since 
I did it that way). However, calling it name seems to be more common 
(not that I have done an exhaustive survey). If there really is a strong 
convention, we probably should follow that.