[chimerax-users] Any interest in reading ModelArchive metadata from mmCIF files?

[Ben Webb]

On 11/12/21 3:14 PM, Tom Goddard wrote:
> Maybe Ben has an opinion about how desirable it is to put the Chimera 
> ModBase fetch capability into ChimeraX, and whether it is more or less 
> desirable than making the new mmCIF tables accessible in ChimeraX, to 
> help figure out priorities.

I've never used the ModBase fetch capability in Chimera - after all, my 
job is to put models into ModBase, not to take them out! - but if you 
were to add it I'd recommend you fetch as mmCIF rather than PDB.

IMHO parsing the new mmCIF tables would be the more desirable feature 
because it isn't limited to ModBase models - and as Tom says, would work 
regardless of how you get the file.

	Ben
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