PDB_SPLITCHAIN(1)

💖 PDB_SPLITCHAIN 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because this is the manual page for pdb_splitchain, from the pdb-tools suite, and it's about to be your new fave. section 1, User Commands, iykyk. ✨

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pdb_splitchain — manual page for pdb_splitchain 2.5.1 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so here's the vibe. if you run it all sad and lonely like this:

pdb_splitchain File not found or not readable: '--help'

that's it, that's the whole message, File not found or not readable: '--help'. no help text for you, bestie, it just says that. 💀

but the actual job? iconic. it splits a PDB file into several, each containing one chain. one file in, a lil squad of chain-files out. main character energy fr fr. 👑

✨ Usage: ✨

python pdb_splitchain.py <pdb file>

🎀 Example: 🎀

python pdb_splitchain.py 1CTF.pdb

This program is part of the pdb-tools suite of utilities and should not be distributed isolatedly. like, do NOT separate it from its family, it will simply not thrive. 🙈

the pdb-tools were created to quickly manipulate PDB files using the terminal, and they can be used sequentially, with one tool streaming data to another. it's giving pipeline, it's giving chain reaction, it's giving glow-up. 🌈

they're based on old FORTRAN77 code that was taking too much effort to maintain and compile. RIP. 😭🪦

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and that's the whole page, babe. this was pdb_splitchain 2.5.1, dated September 2024, living in section 1 as PDB_SPLITCHAIN(1). mwah. 💅🌸