Chemistry/File/PDB version 0.22
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This module reads and writes PDB files. The PDB file format is commonly used to
describe proteins, particularly those stored in the Protein Data Bank
(L<http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/>). The current version of this module only uses the
ATOM and HETATM records, ignoring everything else.

This module automatically registers the 'pdb' format with Chemistry::Mol,
so that PDB files may be identified and read by Chemistry::Mol->read(). For 
autodetection purpuses, it assumes that files ending in .pdb or having 
a line matching /^(ATOM  |HETATM)/ are PDB files.

The PDB reader and writer is designed for dealing with Chemistry::MacroMol
objects, but it can also create and use Chemistry::Mol objects by throwing some
information away.

CHANGES SINCE VERSION 0.21
        - Add unique ID to atom names when generating from a $mol object.
        - Add a TITLE and a REMARK on writing.

INSTALLATION

To install this module type the following:

   perl Makefile.PL
   make
   make test
   make install

DEPENDENCIES

This module requires these other modules and libraries:

  Chemistry::MacroMol   0.05
  Chemistry::Mol        0.24

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2004 Ivan Tubert

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the same terms as Perl itself. 

