Sun., June 21st 2015
Good evening,
adding several general points to the thread.
(1) Fundamentally PDB unlike other chemical databases
insists that all equal structures should have the same 3-letter
code and the same atom names - obviously for amino acids and say ATP.
(1.1) Needless to say
I can't imagine a journal doing that can you? When I work on my
supplementary material in a paper I don't expect that the journal will
take a bit out and publish it separately to support the work of my
competitors. Not out of spite that I was beaten - but because I don't
want to take the
Miri raises important points about issues in the PDB Chemical
Component Dictionary - I think part of the problem is that this is
published completely separately from the actual PDB - so for example I
don't think we have an archive of the CCD for comparison alongside the
PDB snapshots? This makes