PDB_DELCHAIN(1)

✨ NAME ✨

okay bestie, say hi to pdb_delchain — she's the manual page for pdb_delchain 2.5.1, and she's here to help you yeet whole chains out of your PDB files 💅

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💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

pdb_delchain Chain identifier name is invalid: '-HELP'

She deletes all atoms matching specific chains in the PDB file. Like, all of them. Gone. Poof. 🦋

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🌸 Usage: 🌸

python pdb_delchain.py -<option> <pdb file>

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🎀 Example: 🎀

python pdb_delchain.py -A 1CTF.pdb
       # removes chain A from PDB file

python pdb_delchain.py -A,B 1CTF.pdb
       # removes chains A and B from PDB file

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👑 the lore 👑

This program is part of the pdb-tools suite of utilities and should not be distributed isolatedly. The pdb-tools were created to quickly manipulate PDB files using the terminal, and can be used sequentially, with one tool streaming data to another. They are based on old FORTRAN77 code that was taking too much effort to maintain and compile. RIP. 💀🕯️

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ngl, that FORTRAN77 origin story is giving ancestral trauma and we respect her for surviving it 🙈

pdb_delchain 2.5.1 · September 2024 · PDB_DELCHAIN(1)

and that's the whole page bestie, mwah 🫶 go delete some chains, you absolute icon 💖✨