pdb2mrc

Usage

Parameters

Description

WARNING: the definition of resolution changed between build 34 and 35

This will generate a 3D MRC map from a PDB file. This may be used by align3d or foldhunter, or for other purposes. The solvate option is better than that used by some other similar programs, but is NOT discrete water molecule solvation. It is still an approximate continuous method which still produces artifacts. In addition, without solvation, the program can generate models at any resolution, but with solvation, resolution must be 1.5 A or better.

The purpose of [sym=] is mainly for generating full icosahedral virus structure, since the PDB files for some viruses (bluetongue virus) only have non-crystallographic symmetry transform matrix for half of the virus, we need to apply additional symmetry operation (for bluetongue virus use sym=c2) to generate the full structure. For bluetongue virus, the C2 is not enough, it requires another rotation along Z axis to make the the XYZ all on 2-fold axes, so [rot=] is added for this purpose to tranform the coordinates instead tranform of density map later on.

The solvate option works best with apix=.8 and res=2.4. The approximation becomes worse if res < (3*apix). This will take some time to calculate, and is only an approximation.


EMAN Manual page, generated Mon Jan 8 17:35:59 2007

PdbToMrc (last edited 2008-11-26 04:42:28 by localhost)