Perhaps someone more expert can help me with this problem (Gene, I'm looking in your direction). I'm trying to get these huge text files (400k+) that contain protein structure data from a database. And on every computer other than my laptop it works just fine. But on the laptop (where I would like to do the scripting to analyze these files) I get WEIRD corruption. I put "weird" in all caps because the corruption isn't really corruption; it's actually other biology-related files getting shoved into the middle of the files. Sometimes it's just garbage, other times I see jpeg headers, other times I get recognizable HTML, and just now I got this:
ANISOU 1218 CA LEU 149 3023 1585 4175 660 -2490 -1142 C
ATOM 1219 C LEU 149 5.766 24.044 -4.775 1.00 19.66 C
ANISOU 1219 C LEU 149 2736 1390 3343 254 -2017 -701 C
ATOM 1220 O LEU 149 5.081 23.727 -3.800 1.00 23.03 O
ANISOU 1220 O LEU 149 2483 1525 4741 9 -1704 485 O
ATOM 1221 Cical interest, such as
G-Protein Coupled Receptors. These products and technologies can bring about
breakthrough improvements in the drug discovery process and drastically
reduce both cost and time outlay by optimizing target choice and lead
design.
We have the following career opportunities available:
Senior Research Scientist/Research Scientist Synthetic Organic Chemistry:
You will be responsible for the R&D efforts in synthetic organic chemistry,
and the management of the lab. You will interact clmone98 -8.183 1.00 35.64 C
ANISOU 1224 CD2 LEU 149 6442 1634 5463 655 376 374 C
ATOM 1225 N GLY 150 5.763 25.244 -5.290 1.00 16.01 N
ANISOU 1225 N GLY 150 1874 1481 2727 305 -1072 -688 N
ATOM 1226 CA GLY 150 4.887 26.307 -4.878 1.00 13.54 C
ANISOU 1226 CA GLY 150 1500 1444 2199 90 -661 -304 C
Everything except what's in bold is exactly right. But this weird shit keeps popping up, both on the work connection and here at home. But not with any other database/page I really want to use. I'm so confused. But mainly frustrated. This is the weirdest shit I've ever seen.
Oh yeah. The drummer for the Red Elvises left and now they're not coming to San Francisco. My sorrow knows no bounds. I'm currently crying into my beer (laptop) and listening to the Six String Samurai soundtrack.
