PDBFileParser and Atom element symbol

"Andy Thomas-Cramer" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.java.bio.general
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Is there an easy way to identify the type of atom referenced by an Atom
object? 

For example, if Atom.getName() is "CA", is the element calcium or the
atom carbon alpha?

If not, would it be feasible to add a method providing this in Atom,
AtomImpl, and parsing it in PDBFileParser, using the columns defined at
http://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/format32/sect9.html#ATOM?



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