Alternate locations

From Proteopedia

Some PDB files have alternate locations (altlocs) for some atoms. Each atom that has altlocs is marked with an altloc identifier, typically A and B.

OCA highlights the structure with the most 'altlocs', see within Proteopedia for information mined from OCA.

Note

It looks like in the mmCIF format correspondence may be 'alt_id'. However, because that is listed as corresponding to 'alt_loc' , it is unclear if that is the same as 'altLoc' listed in the PDB format guide.

See Also

• Atomic coordinate file
• Protein Data Bank
• Standard Residues
• Non-Standard Residues
• Hetero atoms
• Ligand
• Temperature value