From: Jim Procter
- Viewing PDB Structures
+ Discovering and Viewing PDB Structures
- Importing PDB Entries or files in PDB format
- Importing PDB Entries or files in mmCIF format
If structures
- have been discovered, then some will already be selected according
- to predefined selection criteria, such as structures with the
- highest resolution. Use the drop down menu to select structures
- according to different criteria, or, alternatively, choose
- structures manually by selecting with the keyboard and mouse.
+
You can select
+ the structures to you want to open and view by selecting them with
+ the mouse and keyboard.
By default, if structures were
+ discovered, then some will already be selected according to the
+ criteria shown in the drop-down menu. The default criteria is
+ 'highest resolution', simply choose another to pick structures in
+ a different way.
If you
have previously downloaded structures for your sequences, they
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- You can retrieve sequences from the PDB using the Sequence Fetcher. Any sequences retrieved with this service are
- automatically associated with their source database entry. For PDB
- sequences, simply select PDB as the database and enter your known
- PDB id (appended with ':' and a chain code, if desired).
- Jalview will also read PDB files directly. Simply load in the file
- as you would an alignment file. The sequences of any protein or
- nucleotide chains will be extracted from the file and viewed in the
- alignment window.
+ Retrieving sequences from the PDB
You can
+ retrieve sequences from the PDB using the Sequence Fetcher. The sequences
+ retrieved with this service are derived directly from the PDB 3D
+ structure data, which can be viewed in the same way above. Secondary
+ structure and temperature factor annotation can also be added.
- mmCIF file format provides an alternative means for
- importing 3D structure data from flat file and EMBL-PDBe
- web-service. To enable mmCIF as the default format for
- importing PBD sequences from the PDB sequence fetcher, add or modify the
- property
- DEFAULT_STRUCTURE_FORMAT=mmCIF
in Jalview properties file.
- Once this is done, the steps followed in retrieving PDB format files above can
- be followed to obtain the same data with mmCIF. mmCIF format file support was added in Jalview 2.9.1.
Jalview
+ will also read PDB files directly - either in PDB format, or mmCIF. Simply load in the file as you would
+ an alignment file. The sequences of any protein or nucleotide chains
+ will be extracted from the file and viewed in the alignment window.
+
Associating a large number of PDB files to
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desktop, Jalview will give you the option of associating PDB files
with sequences that have the same filename. This means, for example,
you can automatically associate PDB files with names like '1gaq.pdb'
- with sequences that have an ID like '1gaq'.
- Note: This feature was added in Jalview 2.7
+ with sequences that have an ID like '1gaq'.
Note:
+ This feature was added in Jalview 2.7
Note for Jalview applet users:
Due to the applet
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Features" menu item and the Feature
Settings dialog box.
+ Switching between mmCIF and PDB format for
+ downloading files from the PDB
Jalview now employs the mmCIF format for importing 3D structure data
+ from flat file and EMBL-PDBe web-service, as recommended by the
+ wwwPDB. If you prefer (for any reason) to download data as PDB files
+ instead, then first close Jalview, and add the following line to
+ your .jalview_properties file:
+ DEFAULT_STRUCTURE_FORMAT=PDB
+
When this setting is configured, Jalview will only request
+ PDB format files from EMBL-EBI's PDBe.
mmCIF format
+ file support was added in Jalview 2.10.
+
Outstanding problem with cut'n'pasted
- files in Jalview 2.6 and Jalview 2.7
Structures
- imported via the cut'n'paste dialog box will not be correctly
- highlighted or coloured when they are displayed in structure
- views, especially if they contain more than one PDB structure. See
- the bug report at http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-623 for
- news on this problem.
+ files in Jalview 2.6 and Jalview 2.7
Structures imported
+ via the cut'n'paste dialog box will not be correctly highlighted
+ or coloured when they are displayed in structure views, especially
+ if they contain more than one PDB structure. See the bug report at
+ http://issues.jalview.org/browse/JAL-623 for news on this problem.