Dear Tim,
I am sorry that you feel offended. It is rather unfortunate that you
got an impression from my secondary comment that I am asking for help
with pdbvconv when I wasn't. It is also rather unfortunate that I have
figured out what the problem was myself and therefore did not have an
opportunity to ask for and fully utilize your help and that of other
ccp4bb members. In general, it is rather unfortunate that helping
others often feels and occasionally is a waste of time. Hopefully this
unfortunate experience will not dissuade you from positively
contributing to the ccp4bb to the same extent to which it dissuades me
from ever again soliciting any advice through this venue.
Cheers,
Ed.
PS. Naturally, at the time of the original post and the subsequent one
you responded to I did not yet know what was wrong with the specific pdb
file. To have such knowledge and yet ask why pdbvconv fails (which I
did not ask) would be both stupid and evil. Then again, I may be both
of these things.
On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 21:55 +0200, Tim Gruene wrote:
> Dear Ed,
>
> I do feel offended because I follow the ccp4bb with the intention of
> helping people with my answers, which does take time. If it turns out
> the I wasted my time because of the lack of information I consider the
> question asked not follow what I consider netiquette. I doubt that one
> line from a PDB file or the point that you have used pbdvconv before
> (especially in case you were aware of the problem being due to a
> simple shift - of course I do not know whether you were aware of it
> when opening the thread) and it failed would have revealed any
> information that would give your competitors any advantage, but it
> would have narrowed down the problem and probably the number of people
> spending time trying to find and give a helpful answer.
>
> Regards,
> Tim
>
> On 05/22/2013 07:55 PM, Ed Pozharski wrote:
> > On Wed, 2013-05-22 at 18:09 +0200, Tim Gruene wrote:
> >> the answers you received were correct with respect to the
> >> question you asked. If they are not satisfactory, you have not
> >> given sufficient information.
> >>
> > Tim,
> >
> > Not sure when I expressed any dissatisfaction with replies I
> > received. I asked whether someone had a simple tool to turn v3 DNA
> > records back to v2. I got an excellent off-list suggestion to use
> > Remediator tool from kinemage/molprobity (writen by Jeff Headd and
> > Robert Immormino).
> >
> > It was probably easy to guess that I tried pdbvconv and ran into
> > problems (in fact, buster takes care of conversion internally
> > unless it fails). I appreciate your initial comment that pdbvconv
> > works for you and was simply pointing out that my observations are
> > not of general nature and obviously specific to a particular file
> > I was trying to convert. It appears that you were offended by
> > that and if so, it was not my intent. In my defense, I only asked
> > for available conversion tools and did not ask specifically for
> > help with pdbvconv. With this in mind, I hope I can be forgiven for
> > not posting unpublished structural model on a bulletin board in
> > order to provide sufficient information for answering a question I
> > did not ask.
> >
> > If you are interested in specifics, the problem was that some other
> > program made residue names left-justified.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Ed.
> >
> >
>
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