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From: Albers, Thomas (TALBERS_at_augusta.edu)
Date: Wed Sep 13 2017 - 11:22:25 CDT

Hi Chris,

> Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 20:46:09 +0000
> From: "Goedde, Chris" <CGOEDDE_at_depaul.edu>
> Subject: vmd-l: segname field in pdb files
>
> Hi all,
>
> Is there documentation that specifies which columns in a pdb file are interpreted as the 'segname' field by vmd? It seems to be columns 73-75 in the pdb files that IEUR(tm)ve seen, but I wanted to make sure that's correct.

>From what I can see the segid field used to be part of the PDB standard
but was removed a long time ago. The 1996 revision mentions it:
https://cdn.rcsb.org/wwpdb/docs/documentation/file-format/PDB_format_1996.pdf

In later versions that field is dropped.

Thomas