I vote (somewhat belatedly):

A. That the default unit for distance in jmol be Angstroms.
B. That the default precision be two digits following the decimal point.

See further discussion below.

At 8/30/05, Miguel wrote:
> I do not understand why the default units is nm
> instead of Angstroms or pm.
> This seems very strange to me.
> My experience is that nm are only used in spectroscopy.

I was told that:

 - the Royal Chemical Society mandates that everything be done in nanometers
 - many publications no longer accept angstroms
 - angstroms are not even taught in European schools

Those sounded like very good reasons to me.


And indeed they do sound that way, but (sorry Miguel) I can't resist saying
... and I was told that:

1. The USA is converting to metric units (I was told that several decades ago). But even road signs are still not in km. More signs are in Spanish (a good thing!) than in metric.

2. mmCIF is the new standard for protein structure data. But in fact nearly all crystallographers still prepare and submit their data in PDB format, and nearly all protein structure software uses PDB format (often exclusively).

My impression is that Angstroms are the preferred unit among protein crystallographers, regardless of the official line.




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