A swiss army knife for molecular structures via PDB and mmCIF manipulation

What is it about?

Set of python scripts that are parsing, manipulating, converting and editing PDB files. They can be piped with each other allowing for short and intuitive usage. They try to address most of the daily tasks that computational biologists have to perform when using PDB files.

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Why is it important?

PDB files carry 3D structure information of biomolecules and allow to transfer this information from visualization software to simulation packages and many other tasks. Having a set of easily installable and usable tools to play with them allows for a significant gain of efficiency. From single command-line on a single event basis to their usage in large pipelines, the pdb-tools scripts can be associated to many daily tasks that require, or not, performances.