The wwPDB will run out of 4-character PDB IDs soon and will switch to an extended format: https://www.wwpdb.org/news/news?year=2021#607760112786e73a79c76f9d
The new format will be eight characters prefixed by ‘PDB’, e.g., pdb_00001abc.
Chemical compounds will also run out of 3-letter identifiers soon and will switch to 4-letter identifiers. These are incompatible with the PDB file format.
We should ensure that biojava parsers, data structures, and algorithms can handle both of these changes.
The wwPDB will run out of 4-character PDB IDs soon and will switch to an extended format: https://www.wwpdb.org/news/news?year=2021#607760112786e73a79c76f9d
The new format will be eight characters prefixed by ‘PDB’, e.g., pdb_00001abc.
Chemical compounds will also run out of 3-letter identifiers soon and will switch to 4-letter identifiers. These are incompatible with the PDB file format.
We should ensure that biojava parsers, data structures, and algorithms can handle both of these changes.