mdtraj.formats.PDBTrajectoryFile¶

class mdtraj.formats.PDBTrajectoryFile(filename, mode='r', force_overwrite=True)¶

Interface for reading and writing Protein Data Bank (PDB) files

Parameters:	filename : str The filename to open. A path to a file on disk. mode : {‘r’, ‘w’} The mode in which to open the file, either ‘r’ for read or ‘w’ for write. force_overwrite : bool If opened in write mode, and a file by the name of filename already exists on disk, should we overwrite it?

See also

mdtraj.load_pdb

High-level wrapper that returns a md.Trajectory

Notes

When writing pdb files, mdtraj follows the PDB3.0 standard as closely as possible. During reading however, we try to be more lenient. For instance, we will parse common nonstandard atom names during reading, and convert them into the standard names. The replacement table used by mdtraj is at {mdtraj_source}/formats/pdb/data/pdbNames.xml.

Attributes

positions	The cartesian coordinates of all of the atoms in each frame.
topology	The topology from this PDB file.
closed	Whether the file is closed

__init__(filename, mode='r', force_overwrite=True)¶

Methods

__init__(filename[, mode, force_overwrite])
close()	Close the PDB file
set_chain_names(values)	Set the cycle of chain names used when writing PDB files
write(positions, topology[, modelIndex, ...])	Write a PDB file to disk

Attributes

closed	Whether the file is closed
distance_unit
i
positions	The cartesian coordinates of all of the atoms in each frame.
topology	The topology from this PDB file.
unitcell_angles	The unitcell angles (3-tuple) in this PDB file.
unitcell_lengths	The unitcell lengths (3-tuple) in this PDB file.

close()¶

Close the PDB file

closed¶

Whether the file is closed

positions¶

The cartesian coordinates of all of the atoms in each frame. Available when a file is opened in mode=’r’

classmethod set_chain_names(values)¶

Set the cycle of chain names used when writing PDB files

When writing PDB files, PDBTrajectoryFile translates each chain’s index into a name – the name is what’s written in the file. By default, chains are named with the letters A-Z.

Parameters:	values : list A list of chacters (strings of length 1) that the PDB writer will cycle through to choose chain names.

topology¶

The topology from this PDB file. Available when a file is opened in mode=’r’

unitcell_angles¶

The unitcell angles (3-tuple) in this PDB file. May be None

unitcell_lengths¶

The unitcell lengths (3-tuple) in this PDB file. May be None

write(positions, topology, modelIndex=None, unitcell_lengths=None, unitcell_angles=None, bfactors=None)¶

Write a PDB file to disk

Parameters:

positions : array_like The list of atomic positions to write. topology : mdtraj.Topology The Topology defining the model to write. modelIndex : {int, None} If not None, the model will be surrounded by MODEL/ENDMDL records with this index unitcell_lengths : {tuple, None} Lengths of the three unit cell vectors, or None for a non-periodic system unitcell_angles : {tuple, None} Angles between the three unit cell vectors, or None for a non-periodic system bfactors : array_like, default=None, shape=(n_atoms,) Save bfactors with pdb file. Should contain a single number for each atom in the topology