One more comment on MSE: Does anyone know why MSE was defined without a
'delta' on the selenium? Isn't that obviously wrong? Selenium-delta
should be "SED ", just like S-delta is " SD ", so it can't be left off
just because selenium is not a carbon.

Phil Evans wrote:
> <flame>
> As an aside, does anyone understand why MSE is not an amino-acid?
> Phil
> </flame>
> 
> On 30 Aug 2007, at 15:31, Clemens Vonrhein wrote:
> 
>> If your PDB file conforms to standard
>>
>>   http://www.wwpdb.org/documentation/format23/sect9.html#ATOM
>>
>> you could do
>>
>>   % egrep "^CRYST|^SCALE|^ATOM" your.pdb > standard_residues_only.pdb
>>
>> You'll miss the 'non-standard' Se-MET residue 'MSE' ;-)

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