Re: [PyMOL] Downloading the biological assembly from the PDB

[Hongbo Z. <hon...@bi...>]

Yes, great trick:

fetch 1avd, type=pdb1

On 05/03/2011 10:22 PM, li...@co... wrote:
> http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/files/1avd.pdb1
>
> The key is adding 1 to the suffix.  Sometimes there is more than one biological unit, in which case, there is a pdb2, pdb3, etc.
>
> -David
>
> On May 3, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Martin Hediger<ma...@bl...>  wrote:
>
>> Dear all
>> I would like to ask how it is possible to download the coordinate file
>> for the biological assembly of a protein structure from the PDB.
>> Naturally, this is not a question directly related to PyMOL, but I
>> thought I'll be reaching at least a couple of
>> Biochemists/Chrystallographers who know how to do this.
>> As an example, when downloading the PDB file of "1AVD", I get a file
>> with two chains. The biological assembly would be a tetramer, so I
>> wonder what URL I would require to write into a script that does the
>> downloading.
>>
>> Thanks for help on this.
>> Martin
>>
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