Hi Trista,
Thanks for using DSSR and for posting your questions on the Forum. It's useful if you could provide a concrete example to help illustrate your problems.
Some strange base name(B.G-14,B.A23/145) in the dssr output puzzles me a lot, and I cannot find any explanations in the DSSR manual.
At the very beginning of each DSSR output, you will see the following note:
Note: Each nucleotide is identified by model:chainId.name#, where the
'model:' portion is omitted if no model number is available (as
is often the case for x-ray crystal structures in the PDB). So a
common example would be B.A1689, meaning adenosine #1689 on
chain B. One-letter base names for modified nucleotides are put
in lower case (e.g., 'c' for 5MC). For further information about
the output notation, please refer to the DSSR User Manual.
Questions and suggestions are always welcome on the 3DNA Forum.See also the section "
3.14.4 The --idstr option" in the DSSR Manual for more info. For parsing DSSR output, one would use
--idstr=long which separates fields by dot, in a fixed format.
Now back to your two specific questions:
What do the slash and dash mean?
As noted above, the
default setting for id-string combines the residue name with the sequence number as
specified in your input PDB/mmCIF file. This follows the convention such that A16 stands for adenine #16.
Here the number
-14 is the sequence number which turns out to be negative. So the dash has no special meaning in DSSR output.
If the residue name has a number in it, as would be the case for A23, the a slash is add the separate name from sequence number. Otherwise A23/145 would be A23145.
What the difference between B.G14 and B.G-14?
B here mean chain id, G14 means G with sequence number
14, and G-14 means G with sequence number
-14. So the only difference here is the sequence number,
as specified in your PDB/mmCIF file.
Hope this clarify your confusions. Please follow up, providing a sample input file.
Xiang-Jun
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