Data Item _chem_comp_atom.type_symbol

General

Item name
_chem_comp_atom.type_symbol
Category name
chem_comp_atom
Attribute name
type_symbol
Required in PDB entries
yes
Used in current PDB entries
Yes, in about 80.1 % of entries
Used in the Chemical Component dictionary
Yes

Item Description

The code used to identify the atom species representing this atom type. Normally this code is the element symbol.

Data Type

Data type code
code
Data type detail
code item types/single words ...
Primitive data type code
char
Regular expression
[][_,.;:"&<>()/\{}'`~!@#$%A-Za-z0-9*|+-]*