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 Russel<> 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.
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