CNS coordinate files


In accordance with the Brookhaven Protein Data Bank, the entry for atoms is defined as follows:

ATOM    837 HG23 THR  1055      -8.573   5.657  -3.818  1.00  0.00      A    
HETATM 1223  O   GLY   153A    -11.704  -9.200    .489  1.00  0.80      1MOL
      uuuuu vvvv uuuuCuuuuI   vvvvvvvvuuuuuuuuvvvvvvvvuuuuuuvvvvvv      uuuu
        atom     residue          x      y        z     q      b        segid
     number name name number     
                          ^ insertion character 
                     ^ chain identifier 
            ^ additional character for some atom names (mostly h's) 

CNS will read but ignore all PDB records apart from:

REMARK
ATOM
HETATM
END

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