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cif-merge(1)

cif-merge1

Merge the content of a modified pdb file into a mmcif file

Usage

cif-merge [options] input-file donor-file [output-file]

Overview

Unfortunately, a lot of tools in the crystallographic area are still not capable of working with mmCIF files in a proper way, forcing you to feed them PDB files. Or, when they do support mmCIF, they write out mutilated files without lots of the original information contained in the input file.

To remedy this, cif-merge can be used to create a new mmCIF file containing information from the processed PDB (or mmCIF) file and fill in the blanks using a donor mmCIF file.

The input-file is the file that was processed by an old tool, missing the additional data. The donor-file contains the extra information to be copied. When output-file is not specified, the result is written to stdout.

Options

--verbose,-v

Be more verbose, useful to diagnose validation errors.

History

  • Debian 13 (Trixie) to Debian 12 (Bookworm): the text shown here
  • Debian 11 (Bullseye)

--dict until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --donor until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --input until Debian 11 (Bullseye); --output until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -i until Debian 11 (Bullseye); -o until Debian 11 (Bullseye).

Author

Written by Maarten L. Hekkelman <[email protected]>

Reporting bugs

Report bugs at https://github.com/PDB-REDO/cif-tools/issues

From cif-tools 1.0.12-4 in Debian 13 (Trixie). Parsed by carta from the page's man source.