CCL: cif <-> pdb conversion

[Jerome PANSANEL <j.pansanel-,-pansanel.net>]

 Sent to CCL by: Jerome PANSANEL [j.pansanel{:}pansanel.net]
 Hi,
 If your CIF file contains a set of data describe by the Macromolecular CIF
 dictionnary (http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/cif/mm/index.html), you can use
 a
 tool destributed by the PDB, CIFTr:
 http://sw-tools.pdb.org/apps/CIFTr/index.html
 This tool work fine with different Unix and MacOS X.
 Look on this page for further reading on this topic:
 http://www.iucr.org/iucr-top/cif/software/cif2pdb/DISCUSS.cif2pdb.html
 Best regards,
 Jerome Pansanel
 Le Lundi 13 Février 2006 11:24, Silviu Zilberman silviu : Princeton.EDU a
 écrit :
 > Sent to CCL by: Silviu Zilberman [silviu|Princeton.EDU]
 > Hi,
 >
 > I've been struggling  with converting a protein structure from CIF to
 > PDB format. Apparently, it's simple and there are programs around to do
 > the conversion (mol2mol, mercury). However, the resulting PDB file does
 > not contain information about the residues, all atoms are labeled as
 > HETATM and as such are not recognized as part of a particular residue.
 > This is important when trying to generate fancy graphics with molecular
 > viewers such as VMD.
 >
 > I have a few questions:
 >
 > 1. How one can tell, from looking at the CIF file, if it contains
 > residue information.
 > 2. Is there a utility that converts CIF to PDB that preserves residue
 > information.
 > 3. Is there a program that will take a PDB file and modify it to assign
 > residue label for atoms.
 >
 > Thanks, Silviu.