Thanks to all who posted on this.

The trouble, as Eleanor and Garib correctly point out, has nothing to do with the formatting of the PDB file, nor is it related to anything in the way OS X does, well, anything (the reason I saw a difference between Irix and OS X was that I had slightly different assortments of monomer libraries on the two machines). As an aside, there IS also a file named Cd.cif, and OS X clearly seemed to be choosing the correct file based upon the case of the residue name.

A note to those using Hampton Screen 2 condition # 34, or other cadmium-containing buffers: The CD1 monomer library is for HYDRATED cadmium ions; if you don't have a hydration shell defined as part of the residue, you need to have a monomer library file for a naked ion (the CD_EL.cif file referred to by Eleanor below; if you don't have one (I didn't in 5.0.2), you can infer the format from files used for other ions, e.g., CA.cif for calcium...)

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From: Garib Murshudov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Unforutunately residue name CD clashes with cytidine and residue name for cadmium is CD1. I should make list of
all elements.

Garib


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There does seem to be a potential problem there:
There is a "residue" Cd with name Cd in
/y/programs/xtal/ccp4-6.0/ccp4-6.0/lib/data/monomers/c/CD.cif

Cd C 'Cytidine ' DNA 30 19


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