Re: /etc/magic for scientific data

[Andreas Hildebrandt <anhi@bioinf.uni-sb.de>]

Hi Steffen!

Steffen Moeller schrieb:
> Hello,
> 
> I am so busy that I followed my attention deficit disorder a bit and came up with those
> magic for the "file" command. They seem to work. Before I place a wishlist to file, please
> be so kind to check them for me a bit:
> 
> 
> sudo cat >> /etc/magic <<EOMAGIC
> # Sybil mol2 format
> 0       string          @<TRIPOS>       Sybil Mol2 molecular coordinates
> 
> # Ghemical gpr format
> 0       string          !Header\ gpr    ghemical molecular coordinates
> 
> # Protein Data Bank
> 0       string          HEADER\ \ \ \   PDB structure
> EOMAGIC

In my experience, only "official" pdb files downloaded from their
database contain the HEADER-entry, while most automatically generated
files or files from other sources often omit it. There is not much you
can rely on with PDB files...

Best,

Andreas