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Re: [COOT] opening PDB downloaded .cif files in Mac OS

Nathaniel Echols
Fri, 05 Feb 2010 13:01:11 -0800

On Fri, Feb 5, 2010 at 12:34 PM, subh <subhendu.r...@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
> I am trying to open the .cif file (in coot) that I downloaded from PDB, in
> my Mac OS X.
> Coot cannot open the map. Could you suggest how I can see the map that is
> downloaded form the PDB-RCSB web site.
>

What does Coot print out on the console when you try to open the file?  The
data in these files isn't consistent, so there could be multiple reasons why
it doesn't work (I just tried two different files and got two different
errors).  Missing symmetry information is the most obvious.

Nat