Phil,

If I "colour by chain" (my preferred option), metal ions disappear

I see, but not all metals disappear (only your favourite ones I guess, e.g. PT is there). Not sure if feature or bug (I guess the latter).

also is there any way of refining a zone around a metal ion without the sidechains 
vanishing into the metal density? I know the refine-by-sphere ("R") option 
works better, but then I have no control over what I'm refining

There are two ways how to do this:

- mask your map (Extensions->Maps->Mask Map by Atom Selection)

- define your own residues to be included in the refinement (as done in sphere_refinement, i.e refine_residues; see e.g. fitting.py)

I can elaborate more on these if needed.

Hope this helps,

B

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