Re: [ccp4bb] what to do with disordered side chains

2011-04-02 Thread Radisky, Evette S., Ph.D.
Just create a new tag, say _atom_site.imaginary_site, which is either true or false for every atom. Then everyone would be able to either filter out the fake atoms or leave them in, without ambiguity or confusion. Aside from being a binary rather than continuous parameter, how exactly does

[ccp4bb] Paper retraction

2011-04-02 Thread Bernhard Rupp (Hofkristallrat a.D.)
Dear young (and not so young) impressionable friends of Dark Matter, Thank you for all the kind requests for my PRL paper [1]. Unfortunately, I have to retract the paper, but buying me a beer next time we meet might help me to forget you ever asked for it. One (!) respondent got it right

Re: [ccp4bb] program to calculate electron density at x,y,z

2011-04-02 Thread Eric Pettersen
On Apr 1, 2011, at 4:00 PM, Ed Pozharski wrote: I need to calculate the electron density values for a list of spatial locations (e.g. atom positions in a model) using an mtz-file that already contains map coefficients. To write my own code may be easier than I think (if one can manipulate mtz

Re: [ccp4bb] what to do with disordered side chains

2011-04-02 Thread Jacob Keller
I guess I missed it in the flurry of replies to this thread over the last few days, but what exactly is so terrible about keeping the atoms (since you have chemical evidence from protein sequence that they are there, and even if there is X-ray damage they were originally there and are likely

Re: [ccp4bb] what to do with disordered side chains

2011-04-02 Thread Frances C. Bernstein
Doing something sensible in the major software packages, both for graphics and for other analysis of the structure, could solve the problem for most users. But nobody knows what other software is out there being used by individuals or small groups. And the more remote the authors of that

Re: [ccp4bb] what to do with disordered side chains

2011-04-02 Thread Prof. Joel L. Sussman
I think Frances is right, i.e. most non crystallographers ignore anything beyond the x, y, z coordinates (i.e. beyond column 54) [as Frances wrote]. Thus if a crystallographer put in coords that he/she does NOT see, even with OCC=0, or an enormously large Bfactor, these coords are usually