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_chem_comp.id
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Item name
_chem_comp.id
Category name
chem_comp
Attribute name
id
Required in PDB entries
yes
Used in current PDB entries
Yes, in about 100.0 % of entries
Used in the Chemical Component dictionary
Yes
Item Description
The value of _chem_comp.id must uniquely identify each item in the CHEM_COMP list. For protein polymer entities, this is the three-letter code for the amino acid. For nucleic acid polymer entities, this is the one-letter code for the base.
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Data Type
Data type code
ucode
Data type detail
code item types/single words (case insensitive) ...
Primitive data type code
uchar
Regular expression
[][_,.;:"&<>()/\{}'`~!@#$%A-Za-z0-9*|+-]*
Child Data Items
_atom_site.label_comp_id
_chem_comp_angle.comp_id
_chem_comp_atom.comp_id
_chem_comp_bond.comp_id
_chem_comp_chir.comp_id
_chem_comp_chir_atom.comp_id
_chem_comp_plane.comp_id
_chem_comp_plane_atom.comp_id
_chem_comp_tor.comp_id
_chem_comp_tor_value.comp_id
_entity_poly_seq.mon_id
_ma_chem_comp_descriptor.chem_comp_id
_ma_template_non_poly.comp_id
_pdbx_chem_comp_audit.comp_id
_pdbx_chem_comp_descriptor.comp_id
_pdbx_chem_comp_feature.comp_id
_pdbx_chem_comp_identifier.comp_id
_pdbx_chem_comp_import.comp_id
_pdbx_chem_comp_nonstandard.comp_id
_pdbx_chem_comp_subcomponent_entity_list.parent_comp_id
_pdbx_chem_comp_synonyms.comp_id
_pdbx_distant_solvent_atoms.auth_comp_id
_pdbx_distant_solvent_atoms.label_comp_id
_pdbx_entity_nonpoly.comp_id
_pdbx_struct_special_symmetry.auth_comp_id
_pdbx_struct_special_symmetry.label_comp_id
_pdbx_unobs_or_zero_occ_atoms.auth_comp_id
_pdbx_unobs_or_zero_occ_atoms.label_comp_id
_pdbx_unobs_or_zero_occ_residues.auth_comp_id
_pdbx_unobs_or_zero_occ_residues.label_comp_id