[Bioperl-l] PDB parser

Kris Boulez Kris.Boulez@algonomics.com
Wed, 28 Nov 2001 15:28:03 +0100


Quoting Elia Stupka (elia@fugu-sg.org):
> > I've commited the first public release of a PDB parser to bioperl-live. 
> > It has already succesfully parsed 10% of all PDB entries, so I'm pretty 
> > confident it is pretty usable and stable.
> 
> He he ;) I have said this millions of times with the much simpler GENBANK
> parser, and with loading sequences in bioperl-db, good luck ;)
> 
I know, I think it is spelled 'hubris'. :)

OTOH there are only ~16000 PDB records and the rate of new arrivals is
also different then GENBANK. Allowing to parse all records in a sensible
amount of time.

Kris,
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