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_entity_poly_seq.seq_id

herbert_bernstein (yaya@aip.org)
Tue, 26 Dec 95 12:55:07 EST


It would seem very useful to allow _entity_poly_seq.seq_id as a
pointer to _atom_site.label_seq_id to allow the alignment of
chain sequences in a less cluttered environment than the atom_site
list, especially for cases where a published nomenclature has been
used for residues for which coordinates have not been obtained.
If added to the key for entity_poly_seq, multiple alternate
conformations and nomenclatures could also be aligned, provided
a pointer to _atom_sites_alt.id (say _entity_poly_seq.alt_id)
and, perhaps an _entity_poly_seq.alt_nomenclature_id were added
to the key.  It would be very convenient to have all the alternate
residue names gathered in one cleanly parse-able list.
  -- H. J. Bernstein