src/objects/mmdb2/mmdb2.asn

--$Revision: 32084 $
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--
--  Biological Macromolecule 3-D Structure Data Types for MMDB,
--                A Molecular Modeling Database
--
--  Definitions for structural models
--
--  By Hitomi Ohkawa, Jim Ostell, Chris Hogue and Steve Bryant 
--
--  National Center for Biotechnology Information
--  National Institutes of Health
--  Bethesda, MD 20894 USA
--
--  July, 1996
--
--**********************************************************************

MMDB-Structural-model DEFINITIONS ::=

BEGIN

EXPORTS Biostruc-model, Model-id, Model-coordinate-set-id;

IMPORTS Chem-graph-pntrs, Atom-pntrs, Chem-graph-alignment,
	Sphere, Cone, Cylinder, Brick, Transform FROM MMDB-Features
	Biostruc-id FROM MMDB
	Pub FROM NCBI-Pub;

-- A structural model maps chemical components into a measured three-
-- dimensional space. PDB-derived biostrucs generally contain 4 models, 
-- corresponding to "views" of the structure of a biomolecular assemble with 
-- increasing levels of complexity.  Model types indicate the complexity of the
-- view.  

-- The model named "NCBI all atom" represents a view suitable for most 
-- computational biology applications.  It provides complete atomic coordinate 
-- data for a "single best" model, omitting statistical disorder information 
-- and/or ensemble structure descriptions provided in the source PDB file.  
-- Construction of the single best model is based on the assumption that the 
-- contents of the "alternate conformation" field from pdb imply no correlation
-- among the occupancies of multiple sites assigned to sets of atoms: the best 
-- site is chosen only on the basis of highest occupancy. Note, however, that 
-- alternate conformation sets where correlation is implied are generally 
-- constrained in crystallographic refinement to have uniform occupancy, and 
-- will thus be selected as a set. For ensemble models the model which assigns 
-- coordinates to the most atoms is chosen.  If numbers of coordinates are the 
-- same, the model occurring first in the PDB file is selected.  The single 
-- best model includes complete coordinates for all nonpolymer components, but 
-- omits those classified as "solvent".  Model type is 3 for this model. 

-- The model named "NCBI backbone" represents a simple view intended for 
-- graphic displays and rapid transmission over a network.  It includes only 
-- alpha carbon or backbone phosphate coordinates for biopolymers. It is based 
-- on selection of alpha-carbon and backbone phosphate atoms from the "NCBI
-- all atom" model. The model type is set to 2.  An even simpler model gives 
-- only a cartoon representation, using cylinders corresponding to secondary 
-- structure elements.  This is named "NCBI vector", and has model type 1.

-- The models named "PDB Model 1", "PDB Model 2", etc. represent the complete
-- information provided by PDB, including full descriptions of statistical
-- disorder.  The name of the model is based on the contents of the PDB MODEL
-- record, with a default name of "PDB Model 1" for PDB files which contain 
-- only a single model.  Construction of these models is based on the 
-- assumption that contents of the PDB "alternate conformation" field are 
-- intended to imply correlation among the occupancies of atom sets flagged by
-- the same identifier.  The special flag " " (blank) is assumed to indicate 
-- sites occupied in all alternate conformations, and sites flagged otherwise,
-- together with " ", to indicate a distinct member of an ensemble of 
-- alternate conformations.  Note that construction of ensemble members 
-- according to these assumption requires two validation checks on PDB 
-- "alternate conformation" flags: they must be unique among sites assigned to 
-- the same atom, and that the special " " flag must occur only for unique
-- sites.  Sites which violate the first check are flagged as "u", for 
-- "unknown"; they are omitted from all ensemble definitions but are 
-- nontheless retained in the coordinate list.  Sites which violate the second
-- check are flagged "b" for "blank", and are included in an appropriately
-- named ensemble.  The model type for pdb all models is 4.

-- Note that in the MMDB database models are stored in the ASN.1 stream in
-- order of increasing model type value.  Since models occur as the last item
-- in a biostruc, parsers may avoid reading the entire stream if the desired
-- model is one of the simplified types, which occur first in the stream. This
-- can save considerable I/O time, particularly for large ensemble models from 
-- NMR determinations.

Biostruc-model ::= SEQUENCE {
	id			Model-id,
	type			Model-type,
	descr			SEQUENCE OF Model-descr OPTIONAL,
	model-space		Model-space OPTIONAL,
	model-coordinates	SEQUENCE OF Model-coordinate-set OPTIONAL }

Model-id ::= INTEGER

Model-type ::= INTEGER {
	ncbi-vector(1),
	ncbi-backbone(2),
	ncbi-all-atom(3),
	pdb-model(4),
	other(255)}

Model-descr ::= CHOICE {
	name			VisibleString,
	pdb-reso                VisibleString,
	pdb-method              VisibleString,
	pdb-comment		VisibleString,
	other-comment		VisibleString,
	attribution		Pub }

-- The model space defines measurement units and any external reference frame.
-- Coordinates refer to a right-handed orthogonal system defined on axes 
-- tagged x, y and z in the coordinate and feature definitions of a biostruc.
-- Coordinates from PDB-derived structures are reported without change, in
-- angstrom units.  The units of temperature and occupancy factors are not
-- defined explicitly in PDB, but are inferred from their value range.

Model-space ::= SEQUENCE {
	coordinate-units	ENUMERATED {
					angstroms(1),
					nanometers(2),
					other(3),
					unknown(255)},
	thermal-factor-units	ENUMERATED {
					b(1),
					u(2),
					other(3),
					unknown(255)} OPTIONAL,
	occupancy-factor-units	ENUMERATED {
					fractional(1),
					electrons(2),
					other(3),
					unknown(255)} OPTIONAL,
	density-units		ENUMERATED {
					electrons-per-unit-volume(1),
					arbitrary-scale(2),
					other(3),
					unknown(255)} OPTIONAL,
	reference-frame		Reference-frame OPTIONAL }

-- An external reference frame is a pointer to another biostruc, with an 
-- optional operator to rotate and translate coordinates into its model space.
-- This item is intended for representation of homology-derived model 
-- structures, and is not present for structures from PDB.

Reference-frame ::= SEQUENCE {
	biostruc-id		Biostruc-id,
	rotation-translation	Transform OPTIONAL }

-- Atomic coordinates may be assigned literally or by reference to another
-- biostruc.  The reference coordinate type is used to represent homology-
-- derived model structures.  PDB-derived structures have literal coordinates.

-- Referenced coordinates identify another biostruc, any transformation to be 
-- applied to coordinates from that biostruc, and a mapping of the chemical
-- graph of the present biostruc onto that of the referenced biostruc.  They
-- give an "alignment" of atoms in the current biostruc with those in another,
-- from which the coordinates of matched atoms may be retrieved.  For non-
-- atomic models "alignment" may also be represented by molecule and residue
-- equivalence lists.  Referenced coordinates are a data item inteded for 
-- representation of homology models, with an explicit pointer to their source
-- information. They do not occur in PDB-derived models.

Model-coordinate-set ::= SEQUENCE {
	id			Model-coordinate-set-id OPTIONAL,
	descr			SEQUENCE OF Model-descr OPTIONAL,
	coordinates		CHOICE {
		literal			Coordinates,
		reference		Chem-graph-alignment } }
	
Model-coordinate-set-id ::= INTEGER


-- Literal coordinates map chemical components into the model space.  Three 
-- mapping types are allowed, atomic coordinate models, density-grid models,
-- and surface models. A model consists of a sequence of such coordinate sets, 
-- and may thus combine coordinate subsets which have a different source.  
-- PDB-derived models contain a single atomic coordinate set, as they by
-- definition represent information from a single source.

Coordinates ::= CHOICE {		
	atomic			Atomic-coordinates,
	surface			Surface-coordinates,
	density			Density-coordinates }

-- Literal atomic coordinate values give location, occupancy and order
-- parameters, and a pointer to a specific atom defined in the biostruc graph.
-- Temperature and occupancy factors have their conventional crystallographic
-- definitions, with units defined in the model space declaration.  Atoms,
-- sites, temperature-factors, occupancies and alternate-conformation-ids
-- are parallel arrays, i.e. the have the same number of values as given by
-- number-of-points. Conformation ensembles represent distinct correlated-
-- disorder subsets of the coordinates.  They will be present only for certain 
-- "views" of PDB structures, as described above. Their derivation from PDB-
-- supplied "alternate-conformation" ids is described below. 

Atomic-coordinates ::= SEQUENCE {
	number-of-points	INTEGER,
	atoms			Atom-pntrs,
	sites			Model-space-points,
	temperature-factors	Atomic-temperature-factors OPTIONAL,
	occupancies		Atomic-occupancies OPTIONAL, 
	alternate-conf-ids	Alternate-conformation-ids OPTIONAL,
	conf-ensembles		SEQUENCE OF Conformation-ensemble OPTIONAL }

-- The atoms whose location is described by each coordinate are identified
-- via a hierarchical pointer to the chemical graph of the biomolecular
-- assembly.  Coordinates may be matched with atoms in the chemical structure
-- by the values of the molecule, residue and atom id's given here,  which 
-- match exactly the items of the same type defined in Biostruc-graph.

-- Coordinates are given as integer values, with a scale factor to convert 
-- to real values for each x, y or z, in the units indicated in model-space.
-- Integer values must be divided by the the scale factor.  This use of integer
-- values reduces the ASN.1 stream size. The scale factors for temperature 
-- factors and occupancies are given separately, but must be used in the same 
-- fashion to produce properly scaled real values.

Model-space-points ::= SEQUENCE {
	scale-factor		INTEGER,
	x			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,	
	y			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
	z			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER } 

Atomic-temperature-factors ::= CHOICE {
	isotropic		Isotropic-temperature-factors,
	anisotropic		Anisotropic-temperature-factors }

Isotropic-temperature-factors ::= SEQUENCE {
	scale-factor		INTEGER,
	b			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER }

Anisotropic-temperature-factors ::= SEQUENCE {
	scale-factor		INTEGER,
	b-11			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
	b-12			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
	b-13			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
	b-22			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
	b-23			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
	b-33			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER }

Atomic-occupancies ::= SEQUENCE {
	scale-factor		INTEGER,
	o			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER }

-- An alternate conformation id is optionally associated with each coordinate. 
-- Aside from corrections due to the validation checks described above, the 
-- contents of MMDB Alternate-conformation-ids are identical to the PDB 
-- "alternate conformation" field.

Alternate-conformation-ids ::= SEQUENCE OF Alternate-conformation-id 

Alternate-conformation-id ::= VisibleString 

-- Correlated disorder ensemble is defined by a set of alternate conformation 
-- id's which identify coordinates relevant to that ensemble. These are 
-- defined from the validated and corrected contents of the PDB "alternate
-- conformation" field as described above.  A given ensemble, for example, may
-- consist of atom sites flagged by " " and "A" Alternate-conformation-ids. 
-- Names for ensembles are constructed from these flags. This example would be
-- named, in its description, "PDB Ensemble blank plus A".

-- Note that this interpretation is consistent with common PDB usage of the 
-- "alternate conformation" field, but that PDB specifications do not formally
-- distinguish between correlated and uncorrelated disorder in crystallographic
-- models. Ensembles identified in MMDB thus may not correspond to the meaning
-- intended by PDB or the depositor.  No information is lost, however, and
-- if the intended meaning is known alternative ensemble descriptions may be
-- reconstructed directly from the Alternate-conformation-ids.

-- Note that correlated disorder as defined here is allowed within an atomic 
-- coordinate set but not between the multiple sets which may define a model. 
-- Multiple sets within the same model are intended as a means to represent 
-- assemblies modeled from different experimentally determined structures,
-- where correlated disorder between coordinate sets is not relevant.

Conformation-ensemble ::= SEQUENCE {
	name		VisibleString,
	alt-conf-ids	SEQUENCE OF Alternate-conformation-id }


-- Literal surface coordinates define the chemical components whose structure
-- is described by a surface, and the surface itself.  The surface may be
-- either a regular geometric solid or a triangle-mesh of arbitrary shape.

Surface-coordinates ::= SEQUENCE {
	contents		Chem-graph-pntrs,
	surface			CHOICE {	sphere		Sphere,
						cone		Cone,
						cylinder	Cylinder,
						brick		Brick,
						tmesh		T-mesh,
						triangles	Triangles } }
T-mesh ::= SEQUENCE {
	number-of-points	INTEGER,
	scale-factor		INTEGER,
	swap			SEQUENCE OF BOOLEAN,
	x			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
	y			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
	z		        SEQUENCE OF INTEGER }

Triangles ::= SEQUENCE {
	number-of-points	INTEGER,
	scale-factor		INTEGER,
	x			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
	y			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
	z			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
	number-of-triangles     INTEGER,
	v1			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER, 
	v2			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER,
	v3			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER }


-- Literal density coordinates define the chemical components whose structure
-- is described by a density grid, parameters of this grid, and density values.

Density-coordinates ::= SEQUENCE {
	contents		Chem-graph-pntrs,
	grid-corners		Brick,
	grid-steps-x		INTEGER,
	grid-steps-y		INTEGER,
	grid-steps-z		INTEGER,
	fastest-varying		ENUMERATED {
					x(1),
					y(2),
					z(3)},
	slowest-varying		ENUMERATED {
					x(1),
					y(2),
					z(3)},
	scale-factor		INTEGER,
	density			SEQUENCE OF INTEGER }


END