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 Professor of Structural Biology and Biotechnology Department of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology Tel Aviv University 69978, Israel Acta Crystallographica D, co-editor e-mail: [email protected] Tel: ++972 3640 8723 Fax: ++972 3640 9407 Cellular: ++972 547 459 608 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 >> >> >> */Mit freundlichen Grüßen / Best regards / Cordialement/* >> >> Dr. Christian Engel >> >> Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH >> R&D CAS Structural Biology FFM >> Industriepark Hoechst >> Bldg. G877, Room 020 >> D-65926 Frankfurt am Main >> t: +49 69 305 12946 >> f: +49 69 305 80169 >> w:_www.sanofi-aventis.de_ >> >> 125 Jahre Arzneimittel aus Deutschland von sanofi-aventis >> >> >> ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* >> Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GmbH · Sitz der Gesellschaft: >> Frankfurt am Main · Handelsregister: Frankfurt am Main, Abt. B Nr. >> 40661 >> Vorsitzender des Aufsichtsrats: Hanspeter Spek - Geschäftsführer: >> Dr. Martin Siewert (Vorsitzender), Ulf Bialojahn, Dr. Matthias Braun, >> Peter Guenter, Prof. Dr. Dr. Werner Kramer, Dr. Klaus Menken, Dr. >> Heinz Riederer >> >> ********************************************************************************************************************************************************************* >>
