PDB_UNIQNAME(1)

✨ PDB_UNIQNAME ✨

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for pdb_uniqname — that's the pdb_uniqname(1) page, version 2.5.1 💖 pull up a chair, this one's short and sweet.

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🌸 NAME 🌸

pdb_uniqname — literally the manual page for pdb_uniqname 2.5.1, no cap 🫶

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so first things first, and this is kind of a jumpscare 🙈 — the man page opens with this:

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

yeah. that's what it says. we move 💅

Here's the actual tea though, bestie: pdb_uniqname renames atoms sequentially — so like C1, C2, O1, ... — and it does that for each HETATM residue. one by one, cute and orderly, main character energy 👑

lowkey important: it relies on an element column being present — peep pdb_element for that 👀 (that's a real reference, not me being shady)

✨ Usage ✨

python pdb_uniqname.py <pdb file>

🌈 Example 🌈

python pdb_uniqname.py 1CTF.pdb

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and now the part where I get emotional 😭 this program is part of the pdb-tools suite of utilities and should not be distributed isolatedly — fr fr, it's a package deal, they come as a group 🫶

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 relay race, it's giving pipeline slay 🔥

they're based on old FORTRAN77 code that was taking too much effort to maintain and compile. RIP 💀🕯️ gone but never forgotten.

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that's the whole page bestie — pdb_uniqname 2.5.1, September 2024, the PDB_UNIQNAME(1) of it all. take care of her, she's iconic ✨🎀 bye!! 💖