[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>Just want to point out something I noticed when writing the scientific
>notation compiler modification:
>
>Generally you don't need [] around residue names --
>
>select ALA
>select LEU
>
>but if that residue starts with a number:
>
>5EE
>2E1
>
>then brackets have been (and continue to be) required.
>
>Am I right that with Jmol you could not (ever?) say
>
>select 5EE
>
>but you could certainly say
>
>select [5EE]
>
>With scientific notation introduced, I looked through the ENTIRE heterogen
>dictionary for complications and only find one: 2E1. This is compiled as
>"100.0" and at first I thought that would be a problem. But then I
>realized that "5EE" doesn't work by itself either, because it is taken as
>the integer 5 followed by "EE".
>
>I believe the advantage to being able to use integers and scientific
>notation outweighs the inconvenience of needing to use brackets, and I'm
>interested in others' opinions on this.
>
>If you have a site that allows for selecting ANY HETATM residue, I
>recommend ensuring that your code uses those brackets. I just changed the
>pop up menu so that it does, as without it 2cct throws an error when the
>user tries to select the 2E1 residue using the menu.
>
>  
But this doesn't prevent all problems. Even within brackets hetero
component names that are token names (e.g. [AND] in PDB entries
1coy,1e3r,1j99,1q22 and 3dhe) will produce an error. My current
workaround for this problem is to use the residue number + insertion
code + chain to select any hetero component.

Regards,
Rolf

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