Well, if you simply replace that "beauty" by this one: grep "^ATOM" filename.cif | awk '{print $15}' | awk '{s+=$1;} END {print s/NR;}' You will achieve exactly the same result (the b-factors are in the 15th field of the _atom_site section in deposited mmCIF files). I'm not an expert in awk, but I'm sure that can be made even shorter ;) It is important to keep in mind that mmCIF files are designed to be usable with grep-like tools, so I don't see any problems in moving forward to that format. Whilst I see a lot of problems in staying with the classic PDB format. Cheers Jose On 05.10.2014 11:18, Tim Gruene wrote: > Hi all, > > reading this beauty I would like to ask a question to the respective > developers: > Will the PDB format remain the working format for the users and only > upon deposition will it be converted to PDBml for archiving purposes, or > are the refinement programs (et al.) going to abandon PDB, too? > > Best, > Tim > > On 10/04/2014 10:32 PM, Ed Pozharski wrote: >> grep "^ATOM " filename.pdb | cut -c 61-66 | awk '{s+=$1;} END {print s/NR;}' >> >> "Nobody likes a show off, Private" >> Skipper >> >> Cheers >> >> >> Sent on a Sprint Samsung Galaxy SŪ III >> >> <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Chen Zhao <[log in to unmask]> </div><div>Date:10/04/2014 4:03 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: PHENIX user mailing list <[log in to unmask]> </div><div>Subject: [phenixbb] Calculate average B-factor? </div><div> >> </div>Dear all, >> >> I am just wondering whether there is a command line tool in phenix that calculates the average B-factor of a PDB file? Can it deal with the ANISOU records (from TLS refinement or not) properly? I looked into previous posts but the --show-adp-statistics option in phenix.pdbtools seems to be no longer available in the version (1.9-1678) I installed. >> >> Thank you so much, >> Chen >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> phenixbb mailing list >> [log in to unmask] >> http://phenix-online.org/mailman/listinfo/phenixbb >>