Chemistry/File/PDB version 0.20 =============================== This module reads and writes PDB files. The PDB file format is commonly used to describe proteins, particularly those stored in the Protein Data Bank (L). The current version of this module only uses the ATOM and HETATM records, ignoring everything else. This module automatically registers the 'pdb' format with Chemistry::Mol, so that PDB files may be identified and read by Chemistry::Mol->read(). For autodetection purpuses, it assumes that files ending in .pdb or having a line matching /^(ATOM |HETATM)/ are PDB files. The PDB reader and writer is designed for dealing with Chemistry::MacroMol objects, but it can also create and use Chemistry::Mol objects by throwing some information away. CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.15 - Added name_is, write_string - Changed "sequence_number" to "serial_number" for atoms to comply with standard PDB nomenclature (INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE!!!) INSTALLATION To install this module type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install DEPENDENCIES This module requires these other modules and libraries: Chemistry::MacroMol 0.05 Chemistry::Mol 0.24 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright (C) 2004 Ivan Tubert This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.