Re: [ccp4bb] Stop the new PDB format!

2007-07-23 Thread mesters
I like to think structural biologists are more than just another user group, they FEED the PDB! Their needs should first and foremost be taken care off, I would think. Also, it would indeed be a great loss if legacy programs can not be used anymore. - Jeroen - Clemens Vonrhein wrote: Th

Re: [ccp4bb] Stop the new PDB format!

2007-07-23 Thread Clemens Vonrhein
Hmmm - ccp4bb doesn't allow an attachement ... so script comes here: -- cut here --- #!/bin/sh [ $# -eq 0 ] && echo " ERROR: give some PDB identifier as argument" type tkdiff >/dev/null 2>&1 [ $? -eq 0 ] && diff=tkdiff || diff=diff for id in $@ do i

Re: [ccp4bb] Stop the new PDB format!

2007-07-23 Thread Clemens Vonrhein
There is a collection of posts (unfortunately with a number of spam messages) at http://wwpdb-remediation.rutgers.edu/mail-archive/ with various comments. Although I'm not familiar with the internal workings of this remediation program, it seems indeed that the PDB format is now largely auto-ge

Re: [ccp4bb] Stop the new PDB format!

2007-07-21 Thread Ethan A Merritt
On Saturday 21 July 2007 11:12, Joe Krahn wrote: > we all use in our daily research. They don't even want to keep the PDB > format at all. It's primary purpose now is for structural biologists. That is inevitable. The PDB format is simply not capable of representing the complexities of current cr

[ccp4bb] Stop the new PDB format!

2007-07-21 Thread Joe Krahn
The new PDB format (version 3) has a lot of very useful improvements, and an update is long overdue. However, I am irate that RCSB chose NOT to use the ACA meeting to discuss the changes. Instead, the format is being put into production at the same time as the ACA meeting. It is essentially stating