Hi Rachel,
Thanks for clarifying this. Things will be much easier when SPLIT entries are consolidated. That is, when all the software is updated as well.
> Entries are split only for reasons of size.
1apg was, sort of, an example of the contrary (see the, now obsolete, reflection file). I thought there were more examples, but fortunately I couldn't find any quickly.
Cheers,
Robbie
> We will continue the practice that any structure deposited as a single
> PDBx/mmCIF file will be divided into SPLIT files and added to the ftp archive
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> Entries are split only for reasons of size. SPLIT entries currently in the archive
> will remain as they are until sometime in 2014 when we plan to consolidate all
> existing and new SPLIT entries into single large files.
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> Rachel
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> Perhaps a silly question: will old entries with SPLIT records be
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