[Bioperl-l] New modules for STRIDE and DSSP output

[Kris Boulez]

Quoting Ewan Birney (birney@ebi.ac.uk):
> 
> Another option (which might get messy, but still be useful) is for the
> "atom" objects to hold onto just their line in PDB file without parsing it
> - when a client object walks into the atom object and asks for actual
> information then the atom object parses the line, registers itself with
> the parent object (yikes - can we do this without cycles - there is
> actually a design pattern to do this) and then gives out the right info.
> 
>From a software design perspective this might look cool, but this might
becone heavy (there are PDB entries with ~100.000 ATOM records).
> 
> Not so nice. -noatom => 1 is probably as useful and much simpler.
> 
I'll go for this one.

Kris,
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