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cyclic structures

Frances Bernstein (bernstei@fcb.pdb.bnl.gov)
Thu, 21 Sep 1995 09:47:02 -0400


     I do not see any discussion of how to present a cyclic polypeptide or
polynucleotide (should one be synthesized someday) in the mmCIF dictionary.
The area that this affects in terms of representation is _entity_poly_seq
which presents the sequence as linear.

                              Frances C. Bernstein