[Bioperl-l] acceptable PDB/structure formats

[Douglas Kojetin]

Howdy All-

I wanted to check one more time and see if anyone has any advice about 
using structure/PDB files that do not contain all the PDB-formatted 
headers.  See the blurb pasted below (the error is from the following 
small-liner script, where the PDB/structure file was experimentally 
calculated from CNS/XPLOR, rather than downloaded from the actual 'PDB' 
protein data bank):

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Bio::Structure::IO;
use strict;
my $structio = Bio::Structure::IO->new(-format => 'pdb', -file => 
"file.pdb");
my $struc = $structio->next_structure;

BioPython (using 'from Bio.PDB import *') has no problem reading my 
CNS/XPLOR structure files ... but I'd prefer to use BioPerl (since I'm 
more familiar with perl vs. python, although I could look at this as an 
opportunity to branching out ... but, graduation is close!)

Are structure (PDB) files from the protein data bank, with the proper 
PDB formatting/headers, the only supported structure format?

Thanks,
Doug


> I am seeing an error I believe is associated with the 'format' of my
> PDB.  It was created using CNS (format similar to XPLOR).  When I try
> to run the below script, I get an error as follows:
>
> % ./read_pdb.pl > out
>
> ------------- EXCEPTION  -------------
> MSG: PDB stream with no HEADER. Not pdb in my book
> STACK Bio::Structure::IO::pdb::next_structure
> /sw/lib/perl5/Bio/Structure/IO/pdb.pm:138
> STACK toplevel ./read_pdb.pl:6
>
> --------------------------------------
>
> 1. Are CNS or XPLOR formats supported?
> 2. Is there an easy way of quickly converting to a 'PDB' authentic
> format?  It looks like it just wants some header information.