On Sat, 2012-05-12 at 08:48 -0400, Dave Roberts wrote: > However, I just want to make sure the metal environment is not due to > the fact that I did something wrong in my refinement script - thus > making it tetrahedral because it was refined as tetrahedral. ... > I don't use CCP4 for refinement, I use CNS, but I'm hoping somebody > will be able to guide me here. > AFAIK, CNS does not generate any geometry restraints for metal ions *automatically*. You may want to make sure (if you didn't yet) that you use a correct residue name, e.g. NI2 (and atom name NI+2) for Ni++. CNS libraries would use different values for the radii and scattering factors of these. -- "I'd jump in myself, if I weren't so good at whistling." Julian, King of Lemurs