Hi Fred
Well, it is  ironic that after acquiring ability to determine 
a protein structure some times in a few minutes
we are still failed my format conversions like 30 years ago.... :-(

Dr  Felix Frolow
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Department of Molecular Microbiology
and Biotechnology
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On Jun 1, 2010, at 16:30 , Vellieux Frederic wrote:

> Hi Christian,
> 
> Had exactly the same problem (converting an mmCIF file into a PDB). I located 
> and installed CIFTr . The version I have running here is ciftr-v2.053 . I am 
> afraid I can't remember exactly where I downloaded it from.  I think it one 
> of the PDB associated files.
> 
> Fred.
> 
> Christian Engel wrote:
>> Dear All,
>> I am looking for a ccp4 program that reads in cif-files and converts them 
>> into pdb-files, including the CRYST1 card. Can anybody suggest a solution? I 
>> didn't find any in ccp4i, e.g. the coordinate utilities.
>> I also tried COOT to read in cif-files (downloaded from the pdb server). For 
>> one example it crashed, for others it doesn't colour the bonds properly if 
>> "Bonds (Colour by Atom)"  is chosen but shows all bonds in one colour. Is 
>> that a known feature? If I save these coordinates in pdb-format and try to 
>> read it back, I get an ERROR saying: "Wrong ASCII format of an integer".
>>  Thanks for any suggestions
>> Christian Engel
>> 
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