[COOT] Ligands

2010-03-03 Thread Dean Derbyshire
Perhaps (most likely in fact) this has been asked and addressed in the past: is there (or will there be) a way in COOT to 'build' ligands from scratch? Currently I go through a long winded route of Sketcher... importing and pulling the coords around to fit electron density... then finally

Re: [COOT] Ligands

2010-03-03 Thread William G. Scott
If you can define a SMILES string for your ligand, you can get coot to build the ligand with the press of a button in a fraction of a second. If the SMILES syntax is a PITA, use this: http://www.molinspiration.com/cgi-bin/properties If you need more options, phenix.elbow also permits you to use

[COOT] Problem with decapitated protein

2010-03-03 Thread Norman Zhu
Hello everyone I am currently working with a protein shaped like dumbbell, with two well folded domains connected by a fixable linker in meddle. Anticipating movement at the hinge I asked Phaser to treat these two domains as separate entities. Phaser provided me with a solution but it