> That would be a big move. We'd need to see what Eric Martz and 
> company think, since that would definitely change the molecular 
> surface visualization for traditional PDB files. (It would, of 
> course, CORRECT the visualizations for H-containing PDB files, but I 
> think that's a small subset of what is out there.)

(Just for documentation while the main discussion is going on)
Current stats at PDB say:
X-Ray: 53815 structures (those have no hydrogens)
NMR: 8190 structures (those have hydrogens) :: that's 13%


> One question is: What do programs such as Pymol or VMD do? Do they 
> first add hydrogens and then do a Babel-type VDW -based surface? Can 
> someone check on this?

I'll try to check that with a friend



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