Thanks for this. I have recently updated the CCP4-supplied dictionary to 
include standard mmCIF, exchange dictionary, plus extra CCP4 items. This will 
be in the next release.
I was about to update cif2mtz to recognise these extra columns. Will look at 
what you have done, may save me a job.

cif2mtz is based on the ccif library, which complains if you try to load a cif 
file which contains a non-dictionary item. I'm sure in the past I tried to find 
a way round this, and failed.

>From the user point of view, the mmcif file is ascii and you can hand-edit the 
>column item names. This is the get-out method if cif2mtz fails. Edit the item 
>name to something that is recognised.

Cheers
Martyn

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: CCP4 bulletin board [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of
> Oliver Smart
> Sent: 21 December 2011 14:40
> To: ccp4bb
> Subject: [ccp4bb] How to patch CCP4 cif2mtz so it can handle PDB
> entries with Map Coefficients
> 
> Some recently released PDB entries (for instance 3u57) have structure
> factor files that contain map coefficients. We think this is a really
> good
> idea because it means that final maps as interpreted by the
> crystallographer will then be archived and available.
> 
> But there is a problem converting such files to mtz with the current
> cif2mtz program; indeed we raised this on the bb in September:
> https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=CCP4BB;6be4044e.1109
> 
> To get around this we produced a quick-fix patch for cif2mtz that is
> available at:
> 
> http://www.globalphasing.com/buster/wiki/index.cgi?CCP4cif2mtzPatchToHa
> ndleMapCoefficients
> 
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Oliver
> 
> | Dr Oliver Smart                             |
> | Global Phasing Ltd., Cambridge UK           |
> | http://www.globalphasing.com/people/osmart/ |

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