Hi Eleanor

Electron scattering factors can be negative for negative ions, particularly
at low d*.  For a low-resolution map it means that the electric potential
is the opposite sign to what you expected.  It's why you often don't see
ASP & GLU side-chains in low resolution EM maps.

Cheers

-- Ian

On 15 March 2018 at 14:17, Eleanor Dodson <
[email protected]> wrote:

> I am pig-ignorant about these ,, but this example has negative values as
> well as positive..
>
> What does this mean? I thought a well phased map would be pretty well all
> positive..
>
>  Eleanor
>

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