[phenixbb] Adding multiple conformers beyond 4

George Phillips phillips at biochem.wisc.edu
Tue Sep 15 11:05:09 PDT 2009


Pavel,

Instead of 'abusing' the altlocs (one CAN think of this as alternative  
locations of the whole chain) if you have a convenient better way, we  
are listening....

George

George N. Phillips, Jr., Ph.D.
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      Computer Sciences
University of Wisconsin-Madison
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On Sep 15, 2009, at 12:22 PM, Pavel Afonine wrote:

> Hi Ben,
>
> to allow so I will have to slightly change the code... I went  
> through the whole PDB and did not find any item that has more than 3  
> or 4 conformers (at the moment of coding this). So that made my  
> choice for that temporary limitation of max=4 conformers (putting  
> aside a number of cases of abusing altlocs to mimic multiple models  
> MODEL-ENDMDL). Unfortunately, nothing is so permanent as temporary,  
> so we have 4 since that -:)
>
> May I ask you: why you need to have more than 4 conformers? If it is  
> really a bottleneck and stops you from doing something important  
> right now, I can go ahead and fix it.
>
> Pavel.
>
>
> On 9/15/09 9:20 AM, Ben Mueller wrote:
>>
>> I am a relatively new Phenix user and I am trying to see if it is  
>> possible to push the number of conformers beyond 4. I tried to do  
>> so, and I recieved the error message:
>>
>> RuntimeError: Exceed maximum allowable number of conformers (=4).
>>
>> Is there an easy (or difficult) way around this?
>>
>> Thanks for your time,
>>
>> Ben Mueller
>>
>> Phillips Lab
>> Department of Biochemistry
>> University of Wisconsin - Madison
>>
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