chains: Extract Chain-Codes from a PDB Molecule Extract the codes of...

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Extract Chain-Codes from a PDB Molecule Extract the codes of all chains from a PDB object. chains is a generic function to extract the ids of the chains from a PDB molecule.

Description

Extract Chain-Codes from a PDB Molecule Extract the codes of all chains from a PDB object. chains is a generic function to extract the ids of the chains from a PDB molecule.

Usage

chains(x, ...)

## S3 method for class 'atoms'
chains(x, sorted = TRUE, ...)

## S3 method for class 'pdb'
chains(x, ...)

Arguments

x	Object of class pdb or class atoms;
...	arguments passed to other methods.
sorted	logical indicating if the returned chain-codes should be sorted;

Value

chains returns the codes of the individual chains in the molecule.

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