This repository contains utilities for interacting with the ModBase database of comparative protein structure models:

modbase_pdb_to_cif.py

Convert a PDB file, downloaded from ModBase, to mmCIF or BinaryCIF format. This should preserve all information in the PDB file.

This utility requires a local mirror of PDB in compressed mmCIF format. Use the -r command line option to point to the location of this mirror. It also needs the python-modelcif library, to read the mmCIF files for any template structures and to write the final mmCIF or BinaryCIF ModBase file.