Jmol reads the occupancy into the altloc parameter provided the CIF file has
alternate sites indicated.

select altloc=1
select altloc=2
configuration 1;display selected
configuration 2;display selected

etc.



On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 9:47 AM, Phillip Barak <[email protected]> wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Robert Hanson <[email protected]>
> Date: Sunday, January 10, 2010 1:24 am
> Subject: [Jmol-users] Happy New Year -- some interesting new features for
>     Jmol 11.9.17
> To: [email protected]
>
> >...
> > I'm working on crystallography this month. So if you have ideas in that
> > regard, do speak up...
>
> Many cif files have occupancy fields, which indicate that a given spot is
> occupied only x% of the time. Jmol currently, to the best of my
> understanding, ignores the occupancy info and populates all of those spots.
> I'm not exactly sure what Jmol or other molecular visualization _should_ do
> with such info except to automagically populate some and not others by some
> routine to come up to the desired occupancy level. Anyone else have thoughts
> on the subject?
>
> --Phillip Barak
> Univ of Wisconsin-Madison
>
> p.s.: many thanks to Bob for the outstanding work over these past 5 yrs!
> The entire Jmol community is grateful.
>
>
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