[Chimera-users] how to get chimera to use the auth_seq_id in .cif format files

[Greg Couch]

The PDB file is being incorrectly converted to a mmCIF file. Without 
seeing the two files, I can not say for sure, but it is mostly like that 
the entity_poly_seq table is missing or incomplete.  Chimera uses the 
auth_seq_id to identify the residues, but uses label_seq_id to connect 
the residues.  So if the sequence for the gap residues is missing, and 
the label_seq_id's are consecutive, then the residues are adjacent, i.e, 
connected.

What program is doing the PDB to mmCIF conversion?

     HTH,

     Greg

On 1/18/2019 4:06 AM, Carmen San Martin wrote:
> Hi all,
> I am using chimera to display a structure with a 10-residue gap. When 
> I use a pdb format file, the gap appears as a dashed line and 
> everything is fine. However, when I convert the coordinate file to cif 
> format, chimera draws a very long bond across the gap. Further, the 
> residue numbering seems to have changed, so that now instead of 
> skipping the 10 figures in the gap, the residues at both sides are 
> consecutively numbered, and therefore the numbering in the rest of the 
> protein is wrong. I understand this happens because chimera is using 
> the cif column "label_seq_id" instead of "auth_seq_id" to identify the 
> residue number. Is there a way to make chimera use the auth_seq_id 
> column instead?
>
> Sorry if this has already been answered, I googled it and saw similar 
> questions but not the actual answer to this one.
>
> Best,
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