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For a given set of protein structures in pdb format from the PDB database, I would like to find some automated way for checking whether each structure is monomer, dimer, trimer, etc, so I only get for each case the unit structure or monomer. I head about biopython, but I am not sure and wonder whether there are other approaches for this.

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It looks like the first step is to get access to the PDB database. I am not familiar with biopython, but from the documentation it looks like it only has built in database connectors for the following:

  • ExPASy
  • SCOP
  • Entrez (and Pubmed) from the NCBI

Do you know how you would be connecting to the PDB database?

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