From 1850878967b56bec44d8cae0ccdaa217e7fde9f2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Jimmy C. Kromann" Date: Sun, 24 Nov 2024 17:50:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] Update README.rst --- README.rst | 9 +++------ 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/README.rst b/README.rst index 90e50e8..6144e1d 100644 --- a/README.rst +++ b/README.rst @@ -124,11 +124,8 @@ Submit issues or pull requests on GitHub. A note on PDB ------------- -Protein Data Bank format (PDB) is a column based format, however, there are -countless examples of non-standard ``.pdb`` files. We try our best to read -them, but if you have trouble reading the file, maybe check if the file format -is correct. +Protein Data Bank format (PDB) is column-based; however, countless examples of non-standard ``.pdb`` files exist. +We try to read them, but if you have trouble reading the file, check if the file format is compliant with PDB. +For example, some hydrogens are noted as ``HG11``, which we assume is not mercury. -- https://cdn.rcsb.org/wwpdb/docs/documentation/file-format/PDB_format_1992.pdf -- http://www.rcsb.org/pdb/docs/format/pdbguide2.2/guide2.2_frame.html (Deprecated link) - https://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/file-format-content/format33/sect9.html#ATOM