PDB heuristics

The PDB file format has many advantages, it is well documented, it permits description of many different kind of information... But has also a lot of shortcomings, not least the fact that you need heuristics to extract the real structure stored inside.

I just stumped over the paper: PDB: Cruft to Content that collect a long list of heuristics needed to extract the real structure descibed by some PDB file avoiding the errors and inconsistencies present in many files deposited in the Protein Data Bank.

As soon as possible, I will implement some of them in my STM3 PDB file reader.