Data Item _atom_site.type_symbol

General

Item name
_atom_site.type_symbol
Category name
atom_site
Attribute name
type_symbol
Required in PDB entries
yes
Used in current PDB entries
Yes, in about 100.0 % of entries

Item Description

The value for this tag is a standard IUPAC abbreviation for an element (i.e., H, C, P, etc).

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*|+-]*