If this problem continues, please let me know. I consider it a bug in 
previous Jmol versions, and I believe I have fixed it. We should not 
ever see ATOM....HG22 read as mercury again.

Angel Herraez wrote:

>El 6 May 2007 a las 20:34, Bob Hanson escribió:
>  
>
>>If the PDB file has the element symbol field filled, then there is no 
>>problem. 11.1.32 fixes this issue with Hg as mercury when the file does 
>>not contain this information by assigning H to any atom name starting 
>>with H (He, Hf, Hg) in ATOM records. -- Mercury could only appear in 
>>HETATM records, I think. But, yes, earlier versions of Jmol did not 
>>properly assign H in just this situation.
>>    
>>
>
>Well, on the case I've seen, Jmol was assigning properly, the problem 
>was in the file, that "H" was one column to the left to where it 
>should. The PDB convention is four columns, and usually the C / O / H 
>etc. goes in the second (i.e., the element name is right-justiified, 
>followed by 2 alphanumeric identifiers). On that file, since they 
>needed 3 numeric IDs, they shifted the H to the left, and so Jmol 
>read HG22 as mercury (in other files, more PDB-compiant, it would 
>have been 2HG2). There were also "helium" reads; I don't know how HH 
>and HD were being read.
>I was just guessing that in David's files the same could be 
>happening.
>
>Anyway, as Bob says, adding the element symbol at the proper columns 
>(77 and 78) prevents any of these troubles, but I see many people 
>don't do that.
>
>
>
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