Ok, I'm completed baffled... and have obviously started something
unintentionally...
NB: it was a joke!
I was amused that Molprobity, after 'adding' hydrogens to my model, had
'improved' the clashscore of my model by an obviously unnecessary number
of decimal places...!
[0.0099999999999998 point apparently].
Just me apparently.
Off to put my head in a cardboard box.
T.
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On 1/12/12 11:14 PM, "Tim Fenn" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>On Thu, Jan 12, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Pavel Afonine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> Who needs hydrogens?
>>
>>
>> may be you need to read this (for example):
>>
>> http://www.phenix-online.org/papers/dz5209_reprint.pdf
>>
>
>While this reference is useful, it neglects the role of prior chemical
>forces (vdW and electrostatics, for example) in positioning hydrogen
>atoms. The X-ray/neutron data is often not sufficient to uniquely
>define an atomic position (hydrogen or otherwise), which can be
>especially problematic for atoms with several degrees of freedom, like
>water or a hydroxyl hydrogen. Force fields have come a long way in
>defining these forces with reasonable chemical accuracy in the past 10
>years, and there is work to show this does benefit X-ray/neutron
>refinement (e.g. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.str.2011.01.015) -
>suggesting its worthwhile to include this information in X-ray target
>functions. At the very least, it should not be left out of the
>discussion, especially when hydrogen atoms are concerned!!!
>
>Regards,
>Tim
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