`Atom`#

class biotite.structure.Atom(coord, **kwargs)[source]#

Bases: Copyable

A representation of a single atom.

The coordinates an annotations can be accessed directly. A detailed description of each annotation category can be viewed here.

Parameters:

Attributes:

{annot}scalar: Annotations for this atom.
coordndarray, dtype=float: ndarray containing the x, y and z coordinate of the atom.
shapetuple of int: Shape of the object. In case of an Atom, the tuple is empty.

Examples

>>> atom = Atom([1,2,3], chain_id="A")
>>> atom.atom_name = "CA"
>>> print(atom.atom_name)
CA
>>> print(atom.coord)
[1. 2. 3.]

copy()#

Create a deep copy of this object.

Returns:

Gallery#