On 30 November 2011 15:06, Paul Emsley <[email protected]> wrote:
> On 30/11/11 10:52, Judit Debreczeni wrote:
>>
>> Grade (from Global Phasing) produces cif files with non-loop_
>> descriptions of chiral restraints, e.g.:
>>
>> _chem_comp_chir.comp_id          INH
>> _chem_comp_chir.id               chir_01
>> _chem_comp_chir.atom_id_centre   C1
>> _chem_comp_chir.atom_id_1        C
>> _chem_comp_chir.atom_id_2        C2
>> _chem_comp_chir.atom_id_3        O
>> _chem_comp_chir.volume_sign      negativ
>>
>>
>> This format seems correct to me and actually makes a lot of sense if
>> there is only one chiral centre in the molecule.
>>
>> Coot, however, ignores such records entirely, so the chirality remains
>> unrestrained, cannot be edited in the restraints editor or flipped by
>> a keystroke. Using 0.7-pre-1 (revision 3792)  [with guile 1.8.7
>> embedded] [with python 2.7.0 embedded].
>>
>> Bug? Oversight? Feature?
>>
>>
>
> Oversight.  I didn't think that anyone would be so contrary as to format
> their chirality in such a way (it seems to me that they must have gone out
> of their way to do so - I wonder why...)
>


Contrary? -- We are talking about the genuine and vanilla RCSB cif
parser which I thought should be the gold standard?


> Anyway, it's something that I should fix.  I'll add it for 0.7.
>


Thanks.

JED.

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