Dear Sasha, There was a survey done by Ed Pozharski back in 2011
The results of the online survey on what to do with disordered side chains (from total of 240 responses): Delete the atoms 43% Let refinement take care of it by inflating B-factors 41% Set occupancy to zero 12% Other 4% Reference: https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin?A2=ind1103&L=CCP4BB&D=0&P=321265 So, the other way (appart from what you mention) is to keep the atoms and let the B-factors refine to relatively large values. Best regards, Folmer 2014-11-11 14:14 GMT+01:00 Sasha Pausch <[email protected]>: > Dear CCP4bb, > > Sorry for asking a naive question. > > I am trying to deposit a structure in PDB. I would like to know whether we > have to delete the side chains of amino acids for which we are not finding > density or people prefer keeping the side chains occupancy zero? Is there > any other way to do this? > -- Folmer Fredslund
