Phoebe, Jan, PDB, is this something particular to the US portal of the PDB, or general? We always use the European portal pdbe and have not had such "problems". Mark Mark J van Raaij Laboratorio M-4 Dpto de Estructura de Macromoleculas Centro Nacional de Biotecnologia - CSIC c/Darwin 3 E-28049 Madrid, Spain tel. (+34) 91 585 4616 http://www.cnb.csic.es/~mjvanraaij
On 25 Apr 2012, at 09:41, Jan Dohnalek wrote: > There have been other manipulations with user-input values. We could not > input solvent content 83% for 3cg8 (the real value!!!) as "being out of the > allowed range". > The resulting value in the PDB is "NULL" not showing the actually interesting > feature of the structure. > > I also noticed that the reported resolution values are nonsensically > advertised with three decimal positions after the point which is not the way > we would put it, is it? > > Either fight it or live with it ... > > Jan Dohnalek > > > > > On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Phoebe Rice <[email protected]> wrote: > I just noticed that the PDB has changed the stated resolution for one of my > old structures! It was refined against a very anisotropic data set that > extended to 2.2 in the best direction only. When depositing I called the > resolution 2.5 as a rough average of resolution in all 3 directions, but now > PDB is advertising it as 2.2, which is misleading. > > I'm afraid I may not have paid enough attention to the fine print on this > issue - is the PDB now automatically advertising the "resolution" of a > structure as that of the outermost flyspeck used in refinement, regardless of > more cautious assertions by the authors? If so, I object! > > ===================================== > Phoebe A. Rice > Dept. of Biochemistry & Molecular Biology > The University of Chicago > phone 773 834 1723 > http://bmb.bsd.uchicago.edu/Faculty_and_Research/01_Faculty/01_Faculty_Alphabetically.php?faculty_id=123 > http://www.rsc.org/shop/books/2008/9780854042722.asp > > > > -- > Jan Dohnalek, Ph.D > Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry > Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic > Heyrovskeho nam. 2 > 16206 Praha 6 > Czech Republic > > Tel: +420 296 809 340 > Fax: +420 296 809 410
