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I've tried to give them phases.  They won't take them.  I think it would
be really helpful to have the experimental map (or a composite-omit map in
the case of MR).  I don't think there is a way of representing the latter
as phases, so the option to submit phases and/or map should be available.

Peter Adrian Meyer wrote:
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>> I agree that more information to referees is desirable, & I've often
> wanted to see the coordinates and the structure factors to check things.
> But to follow up after publication, there are still a lot of structures
> deposited without structure factors - why is deposition of structure
> factors not compulsory? And who can change things so that
>
> This is probably an idiot newbie question, but the vast majority of
> structures I've seen in the PDB w\ "structure factors" only have
> amplitudes.  Granted, you could calculate phases from the model; but
> shouldn't a structure factor be a complex number instead of a real number?
>
> I'd think there should be the experimental phases, or at least model
> phases with the weighting scheme the authors used for their final maps for
> it to be called a structure factor...but evidentally I'm wrong.
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> Pete
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> Pete Meyer
> Fu Lab
> BMCB grad student
> Cornell University
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