On 19 Dec, peter murray-rust wrote:
> If what you meant is "can we have an open database of 3D structures, 
> the answer is a qualified 'yes'" - without taking them from CSD. 
> There are two main methods:
> * extract them from non-copyright crystal structures (there are a lot 
> of these and we are collating them - watch this space.
> * create them from connection tables. There are various levels of 
> "accuracy" including forcefields and theochem methods. We have done 
> this for 200,000 molecules - see 
> http://www.dspace.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/724 If you are happy with 
> PM3, then use these

What is pm3?  I noticed that the coordinate files are stored in cml
format, which we can presumably translate to pdb for our needs with Open
Babyl.

Regards,
Michael L. Love Ph.D
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> Peter Murray-Rust
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> University of Cambridge,
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