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This is almost more a philosophical question about how you would like to define helices and sheets, which I would argue is not so well defined. shigeta mentions that they have well defined ramachandran coordinates, but that's for the central residues. Terminal residues are far more flexible. The more traditional definition is along the lines of the DSSP ...

I'm resurecting an old question, but I've heard this question from a few young bioinformaticians and had a couple more points to consider about compressing PDB files. The first is that many PDB files (including all PDBs hosted on the PDB site) have some 300-400 lines of meta data at the top of the file. This accounts for about 10-20% of the total file ...