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).