[Biojava-l] Biomolecular structure objects

David Martin david.martin@biotek.uio.no
Fri, 7 Apr 2000 17:09:23 +0100


> 
> Do you know of any Java parsers for the protein structure databases -
> pdb, dssp and the like? I have just put together a rudimentary DSSP
> parser, but it is very nasty. It would be nice to have a basic toolkit
> of protein database-related stuff in BioJava but I don't fancy writing
> it all from scratch.

I don't know if this would help but there is a set of C++ objects
available from Birkbeck. These may be of some use.

I have tried to get hold of them before but the server is always down (or
it seems like it). BCM library or some such.

There are some Java based PDB viewers. Any joy there?

..d

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