On Mon, 2012-03-26 at 10:17 -0400, Gregory Bowman wrote:
> But what about the issue of resolution? As was previously pointed out,
> at say 3.2 Å resolution, many side chains will fail to fit, but it
> doesn't seem appropriate to trim them all down.
Why is it inappropriate to trim them down? Sometimes at low resolution
all one can be confident about is the backbone trace.
Just to be clear, I am talking about atoms whose positions are not
supported by electron density, i.e. where difference map in the absence
of the side chain is featureless. I assume that is the likely situation
when one would set occupancy to zero.
Cheers,
Ed.
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