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The PDB parser is incomplete. It's not very likely that a complete parser will be seen soon, as the community is migrating to the mmCIF format.

Although the future is the mmCIF format (http://mmcif.wwpdb.org/), PDB files are still around. Conceptually, many operations are similar after you have parsed the file.

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