How to find the names of elements while parsing PDB files via biopython?

Question

[Tzunami]

Hi all! Biopython has methods to get the atoms' names but the returned values are of the form CA, CB, HD etc. Is there a way to get just the elements' name (for example instead of CA, CB I need to get C, C indicating two carbon atoms). Thank you!

Answer 1

[Tzunami]

Found the solution (atom entries have an attribute called element which returns the element of the corresponding atom) -

for model in structure:
    for chain in model:
        for residue in chain:
            for atom in residue:
               print(atom.element)  # atom.element can be used to access the element