Couple of wuestions:
What is the procedure for updating an entry? Start a new submission, or mail 
revised coordinates along with an explanation of changes to deposit@rcsb?

"unchanged experimental data" - does this mean the exact same structure 
factors, or will newly reduced data from the same original diffraction images be 
acceptable?

Thanks,
Ed

On 05/17/2017 09:28 AM, Jasmine Young wrote:
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