All un-fsck options should be non-default optional, lest they create other problems.

On Oct 2, 2008, at 6:27 PM, Charlie Bond wrote:

How straightforward would it be to modify coot to automatically 'run pdbset' on loaded pdb files to overcome this issue?
Cheers,
Charlie

Lynn F. Ten Eyck wrote:
On 2 Oct 2008, at 09:11, Kay Diederichs wrote:
Phil Evans schrieb:
In the new coot, lots of my PDB files have all atoms coloured white. Is this a consequence of the new PDB format conventions
Phil

Yes I think so - I found that PDB files that behave like that lack the atom type in the last column (which might be req'd by the new PDB format convention - no idea why).
The 4-character atom name did not allow well enough for unique identification of the element type, especially with H atoms. Overloading the atom name with element type causes a lot of problems. Separating the atom type to another column allows for both atom type and ionization state -- i.e. correct identification of the scattering factor needed. Example: Atom type Fe -- is it ferrous, ferric, or ferryl? You need to know for both refinement and modeling.
Lynn Ten Eyck

running through pdbset fixes this easily.

best,

Kay
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