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This might help:

Acta Cryst. (1997). D53, 540-543   
Local Improvement of Electron-Density Maps

Pavel.

PS> It will be implemented in PHENIX sometime in future, but for the 
moment you will need to so some scripting.


On 12/8/2008 11:08 AM, Andy Millston wrote:
> I am trying to build a model of a 60000 Da protein from the 
> diffraction data collected at 2.0 A resolution. There is a 10-residue 
> stretch that has such bad electron density that even at 0.4 sigma 
> level one can hardly see any well defined density for residues with 
> long side chains.
>
> My question is: are such poorly defined regions left unmodeled in 
> protein structures? Or is it conventional to model the whole chain no 
> matter how poor the density? The region in question is in the middle 
> of the chain and has several long side chain residues - both charged 
> and uncharged.
>
> AM
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