[Biopython] PDBParser-chain breaks

[João Rodrigues]

Hi George,

Chain breaks are pretty "harmless" and usually do not represent a faulty
PDB file. The PERMISSIVE flag is for "features" like missing b-factors.

Cheers,

João [...] Rodrigues
http://nmr.chem.uu.nl/~joao



2012/5/8 George Devaniranjan <devaniranjan at gmail.com>

> Hi,
>
> I thought using PERMISSIVE=0 would raise an exception if I pass a PDB with
> chain breaks.
> However, nothing like that seems to happen.....
>
> For instance
>
> P=PDBParser(PERMISSIVE=0)
> structure=P.get_structure('test', '7ODC.pdb')
>
>
> 7ODC has 3 chain breaks but it does not raise an exception.
>
> Thank you
> George
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