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Official PDB format

COLUMNS DATA TYPE FIELD DEFINITION
1 - 6 Record name "ATOM" or "HETATM"  
7 - 11 Integer serial Atom serial number.
13 - 16 Atom name Atom name.
17 Character altLoc Alternate location indicator.
18 - 20 Residue name resName Residue name.
22 Character chainID Chain identifier.
23 - 26 Integer resSeq Residue sequence number.
27 AChar iCode Code for insertion of residues.
31 - 38 Real(8.3) x Orthogonal coordinates for X in Angstroms.
39 - 46 Real(8.3) y Orthogonal coordinates for Y in Angstroms.
47 - 54 Real(8.3) z Orthogonal coordinates for Z in Angstroms.
55 - 60 Real(6.2) occupancy Occupancy.
61 - 66 Real(6.2) tempFactor Temperature factor.
73 - 76 LString(4) segID Segment identifier, left-justified.
77 - 78 LString(2) element Element symbol, right-justified.
79 - 80 LString(2) charge Charge on the atom.

Typical examples from PDB-files:

         1         2         3         4         5         6         7         8
12345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890123456789012345678901234567890

ATOM     76  O   GLY    A9       6.671  55.354  35.873  1.00 14.75      A
ATOM     77  N   ASN   A10       6.876  53.257  36.629  1.00 16.09      A
ATOM     62  O   GLY A   9       6.791  55.214  35.719  1.00 15.61      4AZU 153
ATOM     63  N   ASN A  10       6.892  53.135  36.555  1.00 12.64      4AZU 154

The pdb2adf utility is flexible, and should be able to read most PDB files, even those with incomplete or erroneous line formats. From every ATOM/HETATM line, it tries to read:

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